RE: [boost] [Review] Boost Graphs Library (GGCL)

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-08-30 13:12:29

Gary Powell wrote:

 >> Name pollution is a serious problem with non-member functions.
 >>
 >With the namespace "std" its too bad everyone wants to be visible in one
 >namespace. It would break things again but I'd prefer the sub libraries 
to
 >have nested namespaces like "std::stl", "std::math", "std::string" etc. 
Oh
 >well.

The initial proposal for standard library namespaces had nested namespaces, 
with the header name == nested namespace name.

Nested library namespaces were later removed as adding complexity without 
enough offsetting benefits.  Code became harder to read, for example.

--Beman