Re: [boost] lexical analyzer generator template library

From: Dave Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-04-19 23:59:24

Please note, your prevalent use of names beginning with underscores makes
your code very unfriendly to anybody doing a "using namespace boost;" in the
global namespace (no matter how ill-advised it may be, I think people will
continue this practice for a long time).

-Dave

  17.4.3.1.2  Global names                            [lib.global.names]

1 Certain  sets  of names and function signatures are always reserved to
  the implementation:

<snip>
  --Each name that begins with an underscore is reserved to  the  imple-
    mentation for use as a name in the global namespace.165)

  _________________________
<snip>
  165)  Such  names  are  also  reserved  in  namespace  ::std (_lib.re-
  served.names_).