Re: [boost] Re: Boost implementation of the Library TR?

From: Gabriel Dos Reis (gdr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-04 04:52:57

Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:

| At 10:58 AM 5/1/2003, David Abrahams wrote:
| 
|  >Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
|  >
|  >> * What if the committee changes the namespace?
|  >>
|  >>    Hum... That could happen. Maybe we should use a macro to make
| it easy
|  >>    to change.
|  >
|  >Isn't that what namespace aliases are for?
| 
| Good point.

Hmm, maybe I misundertsood your suggestion, but there is a problem
with namespace aliases: One cannot reopen them -- which means that
specializations of templates are impossible if the only thing users see
is a namespace-alias. 

-- Gaby