I'd like us to start to think about and putting together a list of widely implemented core C++ features whose absence we currently work around with the help of configuration tests and macros and that are contributing in a significant way to the maintenance and development effort of the library. By widely implemented I mean by all the compilers we are currently testing with; note that this does not include Visual C++ 6.0 :)
The goal of this exercise is, of course, to eliminate the most costly of the workarounds and simplify the implementation for 4.3, and establish a policy for the implementation of the next C++ standard (i.e., all of the TR1 extensions) for 5.0. A couple of "high profile" features that come to mind are: * member templates * partial specialization Others? Martin
