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From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-31 21:10:43


Gennadiy Rozental writes:
> I noticed that in some places we are using extra namespace for
> protection from unintended ADL.

It would help the discussion if you pinpointed these particular
places. The answers below are MPL-specific.

> Is there any rationale for:
>
> 1. Why we need that?

See http://www.mail-archive.com/boost@lists.boost.org/msg01741.html
and http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/90627.

> 2. Why namely this solution is prefered?

It's the only known way to resolve the issue.

> 3. In which case we need to do so?

See the links above.

-- 
Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering

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