On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:54:09PM +0300, Andrey Semashev wrote:
Could we come up with another name for the namespace? The string namespace looks too general to me and may potentially clash with std::string if "using namespace boost; using namespace std;" is written in the users' code.
How about boost::text? * A quick search suggests it is unused; * It doesn't seem to clash with anything in std:: * To my mind it includes other text representations than std::string (e.g. std::rope, std::vector<char>); * It excludes other uses of std::string or std::vector<char>, for example using vector<char> as a replacement for vector<bool>. -- "He is strongly identified with rebels, you see, and very popular with rabbles. They will follow him and he will fight to the last drop of their blood." Chris Boucher, Blake's 7 D13 ‘Blake’ http://surreal.istic.org/ It's a kind of threat, you see.