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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-29 12:48:28


"Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto_at_[hidden]> writes:

> "Thomas Witt" <witt_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:d1vtma$ojg$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
> | Thomas Witt wrote:
> | >
> | > Thorsten,
> | >
> | > Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
>
> | I'll try this again:
> |
> | If all we are concerned about are boost authors, I am not convinced this
> | is the correct solution. Neither is "it won't work portable" an argument
> | to me. I think portability issues should not drive such a fundamental
> | point of library interface design.
>
> basically we are tryging to solve how ADL is enabled while, at the same time,
> names are protected by a namespace prefix to avoid clash with similar names in
> other namespaces.

Did you look carefully at my posting in the thread "Boost Algorithm
Library?"

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