In my mind, it is probably a widely used technic, but not standard, to hide unnecessary internal details of a lib to the users, to achieve a better encapsulation. Am I right? ------------------ Max 2007-07-20 ------------------------------------------------------------- 发件人：Chauhan, Vikas 发送日期：2007-07-19 23:20:47 收件人：boost-users@lists.boost.org 抄送： 主题：[Boost-users] "detail" namespace Hi , Can you please advise , why boost has "detail" namespace? Is a kind of standard as most of the libraries also have a detail namespace for eg: boost::asio::detail, boost::archive::detail, boost::format::detail and so on... Thanks, Vikas _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users