>> You are surprised that a Microsoft product allows something that is
>> frowned upon by a more anal-retentive competitor?!?
>>
>
> Actually, I'm a little surprised that GCC didn't accept it, as that sort
> of things should be allowed under the C++11 standard
> (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1757.html) and
> GCC 4.7 is listed as supporting that feature
> (http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/cxx0x_status.html). In general GCC seems to
> have much better C++11 support that MSVC, so it's strange to see an
> example of the opposite -- perhaps Andrew's using an old version of GCC
> or something.

[Our version of] GCC seems to require a command-line switch to enable 
C++11 support, so...

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