From: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>
"Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto@cs.auc.dk> writes:
The primary motivation for the namespace version seems to be shortening of names.
That doesn't seem very compelling to me.
I thought it was to bring consistency to the template names across the various namespaces. Remember value, iterator, const_iterator, difference, size, etc. from Thorsten's list? The same names could be used in different namespaces for the same purpose. Whether such names were qualified, and whether the qualification was shortened in any way, was up to the context and user. -- Rob Stewart stewart@sig.com Software Engineer http://www.sig.com Susquehanna International Group, LLP using std::disclaimer;