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

Subject: Re: [boost] Removing Bind placeholders from the global namespace
From: Christopher Jefferson (chris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-13 14:26:50

On 13 Jun 2009, at 19:02, 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.)
>

One thought, which might effect this decision.

I believe bind, with the current placeholders, is being placed into C+ 
+0x. This means version of boost with these placeholders in the global  
namespace are going to break programs that use:

using namespace std;

and their compiler's bind?

Chris