15 Oct
2002
15 Oct
'02
9:40 p.m.
At 11:11 AM 10/15/2002, scleary@jerviswebb.com wrote:
It is the vagueness of the term "compiler support", which you did not alleviate in your answer, which I am trying to clarify.
"Compiler support" means "anything the compiler can give us so that we can implement that class correctly".
It could be a specially-recognized preprocessor define, a quasi-class (e.g., SGI's type traits), a pragma, a keyword, or anything else that the compiler provides.
Yes. "Compiler support" can be seen as a courtesy by library experts, so they aren't trying to tell core language experts exactly how to do something. --Beman