How do I deal with the max macro in windows.h colliding with max in std?

Question

So I was trying to get valid integer input from cin, and used an answer to this question.

It recommended:

#include <Windows.h> // includes WinDef.h which defines min() max()
#include <iostream>
using std::cin;
using std::cout;

void Foo()
{
    int delay = 0;
    do
    {
        if(cin.fail())
        {
            cin.clear();
            cin.ignore(std::numeric_limits<std::streamsize>::max(), '\n');
        }
        cout << "Enter number of seconds between submissions: ";
    } while(!(cin >> delay) || delay == 0);
}

Which gives me an error on Windows, saying that the max macro doesn't take that many arguments. Which means I have to do this

do
{
    if(cin.fail())
    {
        cin.clear();
#undef max
        cin.ignore(std::numeric_limits<std::streamsize>::max(), '\n');
    }
    cout << "Enter number of seconds between submissions: ";
} while(!(cin >> delay) || delay == 0);

To get it to work. That's pretty ugly; is there a better way to work around this issue? Maybe I should be storing the definition of max and redefining it afterward?

Answer 1

Define the macro NOMINMAX:

This will suppress the min and max definitions in Windef.h.