Re: [boost] Koenig lookup swap.

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-11 08:18:11

on Sat Aug 11 2007, "Joseph Gauterin" <joseph.gauterin-AT-googlemail.com> wrote:

> Would anyone be interested in me adding an koenig lookup swap function
> to boost? (I would say it belongs in boost.utility).
>
> It would be a swap function that uses Koenig lookup to find the 'best'
> swap funciton, falling back on std::swap like this:
>
> template <class T>
> void koenig_swap(T& left, T& right)
> {
>   using std::swap;
>   swap(left,right);
> }
>
> Several boost libraries (multi array, compressed pair, graph,
> optional, spirit) already use this technique, each time explicitly
> with 'using std::swap' instead of abstracting it out.

The appropriate name for that function is boost::swap
:-)

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