Re: [boost] Re: algorithms namespace

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-22 01:28:13

At Saturday 2004-02-21 11:06, you wrote:
>David Bergman wrote:
>>Daniel wrote:
>>
>>>Douglas Gregor wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Saturday 21 February 2004 04:59 am, Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>We can (re-)consider 'boost::meta':
>>>>>
>>>>>   meta::if_<...>
>>>>>   meta::find<>
>>>>>   meta::vector<>
>>>>>   meta::set<>
>>>>>   meta::map<>
>>>>>   ...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Doesn't look bad at all, actually.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I'm a big fan of using "meta" instead of "mpl".
>>>
>>>FWIW, I'm not. I type it often enough to be bothered by the completely 
>>>unnecessary extra character.
>>
>>You are kidding, right? One extra character... :-)
>
>No I'm not kidding. One more extra character means a much bigger part of
>the identifiers will be occupied by the namespace name. It makes my code
>harder to write and more importantly harder to read. It is worse in
>the case of mpl, since you almost always have to qualify the names.

a ghostly voice comes out of the north "using....."

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