"David Abrahams" <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote in message news:ufyye1cj8.fsf@boost-consulting.com... | "Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto@cs.auc.dk> writes: | | > "David Abrahams" <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote in message | > news:u1x9y2vir.fsf@boost-consulting.com... | > | "Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto@cs.auc.dk> writes: | > | > | > basically we are tryging to solve how ADL is enabled while, at | > | > the same time, names are protected by a namespace prefix to | > | > avoid clash with similar names in other namespaces. | > | | > | Did you look carefully at my posting in the thread "Boost Algorithm | > | Library?" | > | > no. sorry. | > | > I did the impression that the stuff you talk about therein | > is overkill compared to the simplicity of the problem of the | > range library. | | I'm not sure what "the problem of the range library" is, but I think | you may be right. IIUC you're just worried about how authors of range | classes can supply the range-related functions such as "begin," and | how users of generic ranges will invoke those functions. yes, exactly. -Thorsten