"Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto@cs.auc.dk> writes:
"Thomas Witt" <witt@acm.org> wrote in message news:d1vtma$ojg$1@sea.gmane.org... | Thomas Witt wrote: | > | > Thorsten, | > | > Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
| I'll try this again: | | If all we are concerned about are boost authors, I am not convinced this | is the correct solution. Neither is "it won't work portable" an argument | to me. I think portability issues should not drive such a fundamental | point of library interface design.
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?" -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com