Subject: Re: [boost] Use of boost in safety critical work
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-12-10 09:58:47


On 06/12/14 15:25, gast128 wrote:

> - source code is available but some of them are very hard to understand.
> Part of this is due to the support of broken compilers, but there is also
> use of non obvious template or preprocessor magic.

Is usage of template and preprocessor techniques that problematic?
Sure, it's possibly a programming paradigm you're not used to, but it
shouldn't prevent taking over the code once you've learned or practiced
with them.

I think there is too much mystification about Boost doing "magic", it's
just normal C++ code, that any seasoned C++ programmer should be able to
understand once he has taken the time to do so.