On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Pavol Droba wrote:
If there would be just one boost::algorithm and everything inside it, than aliasing would work just fine. But imagine having
namespace algo=boost::algorithm; namespace sa=boost::algorithm::string; namespace ca=boost::algorithm::container;
It is easy to get lost in such a lot of namespace. One would have to look into the docs to see which algoritm lies in which namespace. It could realy be painful.
I think the subnamespaces are a bad idea. I suggest that #include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp> - Includes all string algorithms, in namespace boost::algorithm #include <boost/algorithm/container.hpp> - Includes all container algorithms, in namespace boost::algorithm #include <boost/algorithm.hpp> - Includes all boost/algorithm/* and imports them all into namespace "boost" with using declarations. Doug