Re: [boost] Support for BOOST_NO_TEMPLATE_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION

On 10/10/2013 12:57 PM, Joaquin M Lopez Munoz wrote:

Stephen Kelly writes:

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On 10/10/2013 07:48 AM, Joaquin M Lopez Munoz wrote:

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Stephen Kelly writes:

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I understand there's been some discussion about dropping support for compliers with BOOST_NO_TEMPLATE_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION defined. Has some final decision been made about this? What is the question behind the question? Once the decision is taken, I can get rid of some workarounds in the Boost

On 10/09/2013 12:39 AM, Joaquin M Lopez Munoz wrote: libs I maintain. Indeed. I already have patches ready to push which remove the use of the macro throughout boost. In my case, it's not so much about removing #ifdefs as about eliminating workarounds like this:

Instead of

template<typename T> foo{...}; template<typename T> foo{...};

I'm forced to write

template<typename T> foo_type1{...}; template<typename T> foo_type2{...};

template struct foo: mpl::if_< is_same>, foo_type1<T>, foo_type2<T>

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{};

These workarounds cannot be eliminated by simple grepping/deleting.

Great example. This is exactly the kind of stuff I hoped could be removed by bumping compiler requirements. I've seen other similar stuff too. Thanks, Steve.