----- Original Message ----- From: "Simonson, Lucanus J" <lucanus.j.simonson@intel.com> To: <boost@lists.boost.org> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 10:25 PM Subject: Re: [boost] Boost Evolution
vicente.botet wrote:
I'm somewhat confused about "detail". If it's an implemenation detail of a particular library it should be in that library.
+1, and I this that the name space should be prefixed by the name of the library as ratio::ratio_detail.
Why? boost::ratio::detail is distinct from boost::polygon::detail and unambiguously so. Namespace is the preferred style option to naming convention with prefixes to prevent ambiguity/collisions, I see no reason to use both.
To ensure unabiguous behavior, I will need to use on the Boost.Ratio code ratio::detail, which is quite close to ratio_detail. The advantage of the last is that it avoid the direct use of detail which could be ambiguous. Vicente