Re: [boost] [1.36.0] Libraries with unmerged changes?

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-17 13:26:32

>> If you use "using <namespace>" you could still have aproblem
>> if one of your names accidently matches something this the
>> namespace being used.  For this reason, I don't particularly
>> like using "using <namespace>" myself but rather just
>> spell out the whole thing like boost::filesystem:: ...
>>
>
>
> Here the user do not put any on into the std namespace.
> using namespace std;
>     struct shared_ptr {};
>
> My question was, How the new C++0x standard library avoid regression
> on the user code when the user migrates to C++0x ?

I don't think it can.  That is why I personally prefer:

    boost::shared_ptr ..
or
  std::shared_ptr

to

using namespace std;

then this problem won't occur.

Robert Ramey