Re: Koenig lookup, names in std:: - Summary

From: Dean Sturtevant (deansturtevant_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-01-25 12:57:17

I think it behooves us to consider what the ultimate goal of boost 
is. Unless I misunderstand, it is to provide a service to the C++ 
programming community to allow them to reduce the time spent 
developing, coding, and debugging useful tools. To the extent that 
standard-conformance helps them do that, great. But if the standard 
gets in the way, don't let it. My imagination has proved deficient 
before, but I'll use it again -- I don't imagine there will be a 
compiler that will detect situations where the user 
overrides/specializes std:: functions. (I wouldn't like a compiler to 
prevent me from using STLPort, for instance) Thus I don't anticipate 
getting into trouble doing that.
Summary: I support #1.