Re: [boost] namespace boost?

Subject: Re: [boost] namespace boost?
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-16 06:17:59

On 15/01/2011 19:58, Robert Ramey wrote:

> Certain names like join, zip, map, copy, etc. ... apear in multiple
> libraries.  I would like to use
> "using namespace boost" but then I'm afraid that using something like copy
> will be ambigiuos

boost::copy is a range-based version of std::copy.
It's not ambiguous because it doesn't have the same arity.

Anyway, it's probably not a good idea to do "using namespace boost", 
just like you shouldn't do "using namespace std"...