Re: [boost] [Boost PP] MSVC PP

On 6/27/2018 11:18 AM, Matt Calabrese via Boost wrote:

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 12:56 AM, degski via Boost wrote:

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We seem to be getting there.

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 3 Announcement https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2018/06/26/visual-studio-2017-...

tl:dr: "*C++ Standards:* A new, experimental, token-based preprocessor that conforms to C++11 standards (including C99 preprocessor features), enabled with /experimental:preprocessor switch. This will be controlled with macro _ *MSVC*_TRADITIONAL, which will be defined to 1 when using the traditional preprocessor and 0 when using the new experimental standards conformant preprocessor."

Whoa!!! I never thought this would *actually* happen.

It has only been 28 years total and 19 years since C99, so I think this is way too soon for Microsoft. I think they should wait another 19 years at least before they actually bring this "feature" to fruition. Can't be too careful, you know !

-Matt Calabrese