Martin Sebor wrote:
I'd like us to start to think about and putting together a list
of widely implemented core C++ features whose absence we currently
work around with the help of configuration tests and macros and
that are contributing in a significant way to the maintenance and
development effort of the library. By widely implemented I mean
by all the compilers we are currently testing with; note that
this does not include Visual C++ 6.0 :)
The goal of this exercise is, of course, to eliminate the most
costly of the workarounds and simplify the implementation for
4.3, and establish a policy for the implementation of the next
C++ standard (i.e., all of the TR1 extensions) for 5.0.
A couple of "high profile" features that come to mind are:
* member templates
* partial specialization
Others?
It may not be making the maintenance of the code too hard but replacing
the _TYPENAME macro with the typename keyword seems like low hanging
fruit. Is there a modern compiler out there that still doesn't
understand it?
-- Mark
