[C++-sig] Re: container suite feedback & ideas

[Joel de Guzman]

Raoul Gough <RaoulGough at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> If anyone does want to try it out in the mean time, I would suggest
> starting with testnonlinear.cpp - it already attempts to workaround
> the partial specialization limitation (untested, of course). I suspect
> there will be issues with this anyway (in particular, there is a
> specialized value_traits for the container_proxy value type), not to
> mention all the other VC6 limitations I don't know about.
> 
> How important is MSVC6 support with respect to putting indexing_v2
> into the next release? Time is getting a bit short, if this compiler
> is going to present as many difficulties as everybody seems to think.

FWIW, the current indexing suite works on VC6 and 7. Why hurry?

One thing that I don't quite understand with the new indexing suite
is why it didn't build up on what's already existing. Support for these
compilers has been there from the start. It seems rather wasteful
to throw away what has been developed. Porting to VC6/7 is something
that you'd not want to repeat.

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