15 Aug
2008
15 Aug
'08
11:38 p.m.
David Abrahams wrote:
But do you have a better suggestion? What about just renaming the function to "call_swap(T&,T&)"? Because that's what it does: it just calls the most appropriate swap function.
Or, you might say that it "swaps" its arguments. Hey, maybe we should call it swap(T&,T&)!
either "call_swap" or "swap" seems fine with me; I think call_swap specifies the purpose nicely amongst all the ways to call "swap". But likely it's good enough to leave the rationale for having a "boost::swap" for readers to look-up in the Boost documentation, too. On the possibility of calling specific overloads for swapping boost types directly, iff we name it "swap": is there any compiler where that actually makes a difference? -Isaac