By the way, can I open a flame war on this list? :-D

What's about getting ublas out of the namespace numeric. The sub-namespace numeric has never been used as expected in the early days:

- in most of the code I saw so far, people are doing a using namespace boost::numeric.

- you can't seriously type boost::numeric::ublas::fct(x,y) like you type std::fct(x,y). I mean, std is 3 characters only.

- can we find a way to inject a new boost::ublas into boost::numeric to keep backward compatibility

As ublas is going through massive changes and improvements (thanks Cem, Stefan, Paul, Thomas, <put your name here>,...), it's about time to think about these little details too which would give ublas a new face and simplify users' life.

Cheers,

David