[boost] Removing Bind placeholders from the global namespace

Subject: [boost] Removing Bind placeholders from the global namespace
From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-13 14:02:27

This topic has again come up recently in boost-users. I have already 
assigned myself a ticket,

https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2240

but have done nothing so far, in part because it would break other Boost 
libraries. (Patching placeholders.hpp is trivial in itself.)

This is one case in which the trunk/release procedures don't work well as-is 
unless someone volunteers to produce a patch against all of Boost that at 
once moves the placeholders into namespace boost::placeholders _and_ fixes 
all errors that this would cause.

It'd be easier to split the work: I put the breaking change in and then the 
libraries are fixed one by one. :-)

Comments?
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Peter Dimov
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