std::max() vs (std::max)()

[Tassos Souris]

hi!

i was reading the Boost Library Requirements and Quidelines document and in encountered the following guideline (among similar others):
use (std::max)() and not std::max()

anyone knows why that?

thanks

[weaknessforcats]

What's the context?

(std::max)() looks like a bad cast.

[Tassos Souris]

actually i thought that i answered back in this question..

i found the answer the other day in another thread in bytes... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...calling-stdmax

the reason is that min and max are usually defined as macros in other header files and the max must be put in parethneses [as in (std::max)] to prevent
macro substitution...