[boost] Re: abs and swap -or- overloading vs. specialization.

From: Darin Adler (darin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-01-24 13:31:03

> IMO, the best resolution is a change to the Standard, allowing overloading
> of functions in namespace std as long as the same semantics were preserved.
> This would allow us to always use explicit qualification.  Has this been
> presented as an issue to the working group yet?

I agree.

And no, I don't think anyone has submitted a defect report to the library
working group about this yet.

    -- Darin