Re: [boost] [serialization] namespace boost

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-13 18:40:36

OK gurus - I looked into this a little bit and now I have a question.

The code causing the problem looks like:

namespace boost_132 {
    using namespace boost;
    // bunch of old code using boost namespace here
}

This was added to provide enough information  in order to de-serialize
shared pointers saved under the older system.  By wrapping this in the
namespace boost_132, it was my intention that the directive
"using namespace boost;" apply only to the code in that namespace.

It seems that the complaint is that its applying to code outside the 
namespace
boost_132.

Is my understanding of the scope of using directives wrong, or is this
a compiler error?

Then the question arises as to how it should be addressed.  I don't see
how the workaround for the borland compiler applies here.  What I wanted
to avoid was going through the code line by line.  This is just imported 
code
which in only there to support de-serialization of older archives which use
shared pointer so I didn't want to create maintainence issue.  So one thing
is that the code should be included conditionally with something like
BOOST_SERIALIZATION_SUPPORT_132_SHARED pointers.  Aside
from that I'm willing to hear ideas on this.

Robert Ramey

"Johan Råde" <rade_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:fov8qu$63e$1_at_ger.gmane.org...
> Sean Huang wrote:
>
>> This is very similar (or the same) to
>> http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1285. Unfortunately, Robert did 
>> not
>> want to take the fix proposed.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Sean
>
> It is exactly the same problem.
>
> --Johan
>
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