Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Cpp-netlib Comments

[Nelson, E. - 2 <eri...@ba...>]

Fernando Pelliccioni wrote:
> It is not a bug. The following code compiles well on MSVC 9 (Visual
Studio 2008)
> You just have to include <ciso646>

It is a bug- 'and', 'not', etc. are reserved words in C++, and MSVC9 is
nonconformant when it #defines them as preprocessor macros.  It cause
troubles lots of places, not just here.


Here's a link that discusses it further.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Q4iP1mkfdtsC&pg=PT398&lpg=PT398&dq=ciso
646&source=bl&ots=wYn89ESX6p&sig=YJ9ZKxHVhGctK3_ruaAEuHYnRnM&hl=en&ei=q-
MHTLCWGYWclgesspWADw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CDoQ6AE
wBw#v=onepage&q=ciso646&f=false

Erik