Subject: Re: [boost] OK to remove Concept related config macros?
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-15 05:24:44
>>> I notice we have some Boost.Config macros related to C++0x concepts,
>>> except of course concepts are no longer part of C++0x... anyone object
>>> if I remove these along with their associated tests?
>> I know that some people are implementing concepts in clang, and hoping to
>> look at getting them into the next version of C++.
Indeed, but there are no *current* compilers using them, and they won't be
part of C++0x so at the very least the macros are misnamed.
> Nothing in Boost is going to be needing
> these macros in the foreseeable future.
> We can them back in 10 years if we need to.
Indeed, and in any case C++2x concepts may look quite different to the 0x
proposal, Oh and no Boost code seems to depend upon these either...
Cheers, John.