Re: [boost] Boost namespace abreviations

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost namespace abreviations
From: Sebastian Redl (sebastian.redl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-27 16:51:02

edam wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I just wanted to hear the boost community's thoughts on abbreviating
> boost's namespaces. According to Boost's library naming conventions
> (http://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html#Naming_consistency)
> this is strongly discouraged, and with good reason -- having clearly
> (and consistently) named namespaces is a good thing! Having used boost
> for a (mere) couple of years now, though, I've started to find its
> namespaces a bit unwieldy.
>
> <snip>
> What I'm proposing sounds terrible, I know, but if you consider that
> users would "opt-in" to this by including the abbreviations header
> (meaning it wouldn't affect existing users), I wondered if there would
> be any merit in it? I'm expecting a lot disapproval to this idea, but I
> thought I'd ask what people think anyway. Please don't shoot me down too
> much -- this is my first post to the boost mailing list! :o)
>   

I don't see the point. I can type
namespace fs = boost::filesystem;
at most points of the source file and suddenly I have a very handy fs 
shortcut for that big, ugly namespace.

I think having a special header for this is overkill. And "bst" is just 
ugly.

Sebastian