Re: [boost] [swap] How to fix ADL barrier for XL, Intel, GCC, Sun and Como?

From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-31 16:37:17

AMDG

Niels Dekker - mail address until 2008-12-31 wrote:
> Should we refer to your technique (making sure that std::swap is more
> specialized than boost::swap) as an "ADL barrier" as well?

Decidedly not.  It has nothing to do with ADL.

>   Or is a
> different term more appropriate?  Is it a known C++ "idiom"? 
>
> I'm asking because the term "barrier namespace" still needs to be
> replaced by something else, at two places within the documentation:
> http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk/libs/utility/swap.html
> http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk/libs/utility/swap/test/test_adl_barrier.cpp
>   

Yeah.  We need a better term, but I'm not quite sure what.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe