on Mon Dec 03 2007, "Peter Dimov" <pdimov-AT-pdimov.com> wrote:
JOAQUIN LOPEZ MU?Z:
namespace boost { namespace foobar
...
This is not the case at least for one Boost library, namely Boost.Tuple, whose associated namespace is boost::tuples, with a postfixed 's'.
It's also not the case for std::tuple, whose namespace is std, without a subnamespace. :-)
How is that relevant? std::tuple is outside our purview.
One benefit of having everything in boost (or, more precisely, everything that is supposed to be proposed for inclusion into the standard library) is that name collisions become apparent earlier.
I don't see how such collisions will be revealed just by virtue of the names occupying the same namespace, and it seems premature to constrain two unrelated libraries to use entirely different names just because they might one day be standardized together. The committee has to make all kinds of small adjustments when libraries are standardized anyway. Resolving name collisions then is not such a big deal, I think. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com