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Re:C++11/14/17 Features in VS 2015 RC by TillE on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @07:46PM (#9462585)
> what we do is parenthesize all mentions of min/max

Oh! That explains some of the odd-looking code in <random>, since min and max are used as function names to determine the range of an RNG engine.

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Re:C++11/14/17 Features in VS 2015 RC by StephanTLavavej on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @07:57PM (#9462619)
Bingo. We have a test that includes windows.h followed by all STL headers, to verify that we always remember the parens.
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