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Subject: Re: [boost] [Review] Boost.Type Traits Extension by Frederic Bron
From: Max Sobolev (macsmr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-15 09:06:50


On 14.03.2011 21:13, Edward Diener wrote:
> On 3/14/2011 11:57 AM, Тимофей Игнатьич wrote:
>>>> On 3/14/2011 9:53 AM, Max Sobolev:
>>>> dummy_type should be placed in a "private" namespace
>>
>>> Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:43:00 -0400 Edward Diener<eldiener_at_[hidden]>
>>> What is a "private" namespace ?
>>
>> Оne that is not supposed to be accessed by the user. The language
>> doesn't enforce this, hence the quotes.
>
> Putting an identifier into boost::type_traits::detail seems pretty
> "private" to me since "detail" is never meant to be accessed by the
> end-user for any library. *Is that what you were trying to suggest ?*

yes

In the old cool and famous *loki* library (by Andrei Alexandrescu) a
similar namespace is named just *Private* :)

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