12 Jun
2015
12 Jun
'15
11:06 p.m.
Stephen Kelly wrote:
The reason for this is literally that the chair of SG-10 didn't want to require the stdlib implementor to have to open another file in their editor to add the macro there.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.features/17/focus=22
I get headaches thinking of all the reasons that that's absurd.
It's not just the editor. You could have a configuration in which some stdlib headers come from one place and some from another. Although one could argue that this isn't a reason enough, and I might be inclined to agree.