Re: [boost] Bagging a boost namespace

From: Daryle Walker (darylew_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-24 19:20:46

On 1/22/04 4:11 AM, "Andy Little" <andy_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> I am writing a library with hopes that it may, one day, become part of
> boost. Whether it ever makes it to the main libraries or not it would be
> nice to fit it in to the boost namespace system. Should I grab a boost
> sub-namespace e.g boost::my_whacky_library or should I avoid  the boost
> namespace entirely? I feel a bit 'cheeky' using the boost namespace for
> something that is not 'officially' boost. Is there any policy on this?
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Unless you're also going to distribute the library separately, it should
probably go into a domain-specific namespace.  Only if the library is
insanely large (like Spirit or Regex) should it get a namespace by itself;
making new namespaces for every little library will dilute the system to
pointlessness.

If you're talking about your Units stuff, maybe it could go into a "science"
namespace.  Other people's science-stuff would go here too.  If you separate
the dimension-analysis stuff, maybe that could go into the "math" namespace.
If it's separated further with tagged types, that last stuff could go with
the 'utility' items.

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Daryle Walker
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