Re: RE : VC++6.0 and 7.0 are not supported anymore from ROOT4-04-2 or newer

Hi Nick!

On May 13, 2005, at 4:21 PM, Nick van Eijndhoven wrote:

> Hi Roland,
> As far as I remember when discussing the problems with the
> boost lib with Philippe I think (if I remember correctly)
> the main problems arose just to their use of (extensions of)
> STL and making use of all this newish casting.
> As far as I understood some of the features they use are
> supported by some newer compiler versions, but are currently
> not (yet) adopted by the ISO standard.
> However, I heard that some of their developers are memebers of
> the ISO C++ panel, so the chances are high that these features
> will become part of the ANSI standard C++ some day.
> I don't recall in detail which features that were, but perhaps
> someone of the ROOT development team can give you more info
> on that.
>

Thanks. So once it is an accepted feature, both in the standard and in up-to-date compilers, it could be used, should it prove beneficial.

> Since I have MSVC++ 7.1 on my winXP box I think I am safe,
> but I don't want to be forced to use this ugly looking
> (and hard to read) new casting statements in my private classes.
> I (and most of my colleagues and students) am a physicist who
> wants to keep things as simple and transparent as possible ;).
> This may sound oldfashioned, but too many times I have experienced
> that this simplicity pays off at the end.
>

Yes, exactly my point. And I don't think that "simpler is better" is a bad concept at all. The secret is to choose the right tools to get the job done in the "simplest and most transparent" way. Sometimes I found that templates were the way to go...

Ciao,

                                        Roland

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