[boost] Re: [range] update on ADL hooks

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-29 15:39:43

"David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:ufyye1cj8.fsf_at_boost-consulting.com...
| "Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto_at_[hidden]> writes:
|
| > "David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
| > news:u1x9y2vir.fsf_at_boost-consulting.com...
| > | "Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto_at_[hidden]> writes:
| >
| > | > 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?"
| >
| > no. sorry.
| >
| > I did the impression that the stuff you talk about therein
| > is overkill compared to the simplicity of the problem of the
| > range library.
|
| I'm not sure what "the problem of the range library" is, but I think
| you may be right.  IIUC you're just worried about how authors of range
| classes can supply the range-related functions such as "begin," and
| how users of generic ranges will invoke those functions.

yes, exactly.

-Thorsten