Niels Dekker - mail address until 2008-12-31 wrote:
Is any end-user allowed to add her own overloads of existing Boost functions to the boost namespace?
Niels, It seems like users should not be allowed to add to the boost:: namespace. Here is my reasoning: if users are allowed to add to the boost namespace, what happens when/if that library (to which the user is adding code) becomes part of the standard and is moved to std::? Either the rule against adding to std:: would need to be relaxed or user code would break when the library becomes part of std::. The only exception I can see is if it is a work-around for a compiler that isn't standards compliant since the compiler will (presumably) be updated and not need the work-around at the point that the library is added to the std:: namespace. (I'm not sure if this boost::swap issue falls under this exception.) Thanks, David