Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Compiling server sample with VS2008 & boost 1.41

[Dean M. B. <mik...@gm...>]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Glyn Matthews <gly...@gm...> wrote:
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> 2010/1/20 Dean Michael Berris <mik...@gm...>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Glyn Matthews <gly...@gm...>
>> wrote:
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>> > 2010/1/20 Nelson, Erik - 2 <eri...@ba...>
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>> >> After I fix that, the next error I get is:
>> >> 1>c:\work\boost\boost/network/uri/http/detail/parse_specific.hpp(74) :
>> >> error C2065: 'not' : undeclared identifier
>> >>
>> >> Adding #include <ciso646> to parse_specific.hpp gets it on the road,
>> >> but
>> >> then I come to something I don't see any obvious answer to:
>> >>
>>
>> It seems that you're using the version in the 'master' branch. Can you
>> try the latest from 0.5-devel?
>>
>> Anyway the "real" fix would be to change 'not' into !.
>
> Just a point about the use of `not` and `or` that have made their way into
> the code, but I had no idea that these were keywords in C++.  In fact, IMO
> they're much clearer than writing `!` or `||` etc. but I've never seen
> this.  Can anyone explain why they exist but are never used?
>

I think it's because vendors aren't quick to support them natively in
the compiler. GCC takes this in stride just fine as does other vendors
(Intel's compiler is another one I know that works pretty well). I
would quote the appropriate parts of the C++ standard if I had a copy
(which I promise I should buy someday soon) but anyway it's something
really annoying to me for non-conformant compilers like MSVC.

I also like them better but unfortunately to support more compilers
we're going to have to stick with !, ||, && et al.

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