[boost] Re: swappable user defined types and STLport libraries

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-06 07:14:23

"Fernando Cacciola" <fernando_cacciola_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> I'm trying to say that I think it's the wrong patch.  The right patch
>> would put the swap specialization into _STL::.
>>
> It actually sufixes 

I assume you mean "suffices".

> to put any 'std' extension in a nested namespace (say, stdx); then
> injecting the names in 'std'.

That's unfortunately illegal.  You're not allowed to add names to
std, and anyway I don't see how it could help if you want to
specialize something in std.  Am I missing something?

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