On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:52:59 -0000, "John Maddock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[..] >I hear what you say, but I keep coming back to: this is largely an Intel >compiler specific problem, No, it's a matter of not making a silent use of non standard features. >and most users really do expect their libraries >to support long long whenever the compiler does. Maybe. But we can't second such attitudes. Otherwise someone might expect __complex__, or incomplete enumeration types. Where do you stop? >Personally I don't want to >have to answer a flood of questions along the lines of "why doesn't >some_type_trait<long long> work correctly?" Oh, that's really underestimating users' intelligence. Genny. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
