Re: [boost] Removing Bind placeholders from the global namespace

Subject: Re: [boost] Removing Bind placeholders from the global namespace
From: Sohail Somani (sohail_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-14 18:29:32

Steven Watanabe wrote:
> AMDG
> 
> Sohail Somani wrote:
>> Though, thinking about it a bit further, if you were to annex the
>> boost::placeholders namespace for bind's placeholders, maybe the other
>> library authors would support what is in that namespace with their
>> libraries. <hand_waving>How hard can it be?</hand_waving> I guess only
>> they know.
> 
> Given that boost::bind is also at the top level, I don't
> see a problem with putting bind's placeholders in boost::placeholders.
> It should only require a few template specializations to make
> Lambda and Phoenix recognize them.  The only issue is
> that as Peter mentioned, _1 + _1 won't work.

Why doesn't bind support the other placeholders instead? As you have
indicated, they have more functionality.

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Sohail Somani
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