From a23d63cd9c44932d4e5517883816e30cb1af40d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 03:09:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added stand-alone headers guideline.

[SVN r11774]
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 header.htm | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/header.htm b/header.htm
index 742752e..08d9480 100644
--- a/header.htm
+++ b/header.htm
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ these are also reasonable guidelines for general use.
     to older approaches such as adding funny prefixes to global names.&nbsp;
     Libraries which are designed to work well with other Boost libraries should
     be placed namespace <tt>boost</tt>.</li>
+
+  <li>Make sure that a translation unit consisting of just the
+  contents of the header file will compile successfully.
+
   <li>Place the header file in a sub-directory to prevent conflict with
     identically named header files in other libraries.&nbsp; The parent
     directory is added to the compiler's include search path.&nbsp; Then both