Re: tuples and namespaces

From: jaakko.jarvi_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-09-05 07:40:02

--- In boost_at_y..., "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_r...> wrote:
> Regarding my previous assertions that tuple and cons need to go in
the same
> namespace: when I made that assertion it wasn't clear to me that
functions
> like get<> and set<>, which require explicitly-specified template
arguments,
> are immune to argument-dependent lookup. 

Just when I thought it was all clear!
Thanks for pointing that out.

> The upshot is that they either need
> to be explicitly qualified or one needs to introduce a
using-declaration so
> that they may be found. I am not sure whether that changes the story
about
> which namespaces tuple and cons must be located in. I'm hoping that
Jaako
> will do the analyis, and will either show that my concerns are
without
> foundation or will propose a solution that takes them into account.
 
Will do.

Jaakko