"David Abrahams" <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote in message news:ufz6q4qlr.fsf@boost-consulting.com... | "Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto@cs.auc.dk> writes: | > are this all very complicated compared to what we want to | > achieve. wouldn't it be better just to stick to the using detail::XX | > trick and then write on the portability page that for best | > portability, always include new overloads before the range library. | | I don't know what you're suggesting precisely, nor what problem we're | trying to solve globally, so I can't answer. Maybe if someone could | synthesize this all into a short description it would be easier. We want to find an easy way to enable ADL lookup with qualified syntax and to find an portable implementation of that (perhaps without a using declaration). br Thorsten