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

From: Niels Dekker - mail address until 2008-12-31 (nd_mail_address_valid_until_2008-12-31_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-01 06:27:40

Joseph Gauterin wrote:
> The 'barrier' namespace is only referred to in the two places Niels listed:
> 
> 'test_adl_barrier.cpp' tests that boost::swap isn't ambiguous when
> called on types declared in namespace boost - so we can rename it
> 'boost_type_ambiguity.cpp', or something similar. The comment inside
> the test file can be altered accordingly as well.
> 
> 'swap.html' contains the phrase ''for the idea to use a barrier
> namespace, enabling the function to have the name 'swap' without
> introducing ambiguity or infinite recursion". We can just replace that
> with ''for the idea to make boost::swap less specialized than
> std::swap, thereby allowing the function to have the name 'swap'
> without introducing ambiguity."
> 
> If nobody objects to the phrasing, I'll make the change later today.

Your suggested file renaming and rephrasing look just fine to me.  So
please go ahead  :-)

Kind regards, Niels