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

Subject: Re: [boost] Removing Bind placeholders from the global namespace
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-13 15:34:03

On Saturday 13 June 2009 22:02:27 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?

Will it break users' code that don't import boost::bind into the global 
namespace but use placeholders without qualification? If yes then, please, 
leave placeholders available as they are now. I have a plenty of code that 
follows this practice and it won't be easy to update.