From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-30 06:58:37
Joaquín Mª López Muñoz wrote:
> Yes. Pavel proposes to add this informative macro and *no* workaround, so
> that it's up to the user to use is_abstract in defective compilers (even
> risking a crash) or build some internal logic to avoid it based on the macro.
>
> Thinking about it, I tend to agree with Pavel and you: returning false is not
> necessarily a reasonable default, so I'd go for the macro, only (and ask
> Robert to fix his hack in Boost.Serialization.)
It seems to me that true is the appropriate safe default for
is_abstract. Am I missing something?
-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com