Re: [boost] Removing Bind placeholders from the global namespace

Subject: Re: [boost] Removing Bind placeholders from the global namespace
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-13 14:10:21

AMDG

Peter Dimov wrote:
> 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?

Wouldn't it be possible to have the placeholders in both boost::placeholders
and in the global namespace and deprecate the ones in the global namespace,
so that the changes don't need to be made all at once?

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe