[boost] [utility/swap] boost::swap release update

Subject: [boost] [utility/swap] boost::swap release update
From: Niels Dekker - mail address until 2010-10-10 (niels_address_until_2010-10-10_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-27 14:50:43

As far as I'm concerned, the boost::swap utility is now ready to be used 
within other Boost libraries, at the release branch.  Joseph Gauterin 
has merged the utility from the trunk to the release branch two weeks 
ago, and its release regression page is now entirely green: 
http://www.boost.org/development/tests/release/developer/utility-swap_.html

Just to remind you: The boost::swap utility makes it easier to swap two 
objects of the same type in a generic and efficient way, because it 
tries to find the most appropriate swap overload by argument-dependent 
lookup (ADL), whenever applicable. Thereby it works around the issues 
some compilers appear to have regarding ADL. The boost::swap utility 
also supports swapping built-in arrays. The utility was developed with 
help from David Abrahams and Steven Watanabe.

See also:
http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/branches/release/libs/utility/swap.html
http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/branches/release/boost/utility/swap.hpp

BTW, I've just added a boost::swap overload to the release version of 
Fernando Cacciola's value_initialized (utility/value_init.hpp), which is 
actually implemented by calling the boost::swap utility: 
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/49967  According to the 
following ticket: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2243

Unswappably yours,

  Niels

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Niels Dekker
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Scientific programmer at LKEB, Leiden University Medical Center