From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-06-29 05:41:12
On 6/28/19 2:49 PM, degski via Boost wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 22:48, Robert Ramey via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
>
>> Note that C++ successfully strives to maintain backwards compatibility.
>>
>
> But OP is talking about forward compatibility [he want to compile
> Boost-1.47 with VS2017, there is a six year gap, the wrong way], which
> obviously is never gonna happen.
Since C++17 is backward compatible with C++03 - I would be very very
surprise if it failed to work. In fact I always test with std=C++03
flag to ensure exactly that.
>
> degski
>