Re: [boost] [Lambda] Handling Bind/Lambda name clashes.

Subject: Re: [boost] [Lambda] Handling Bind/Lambda name clashes.
From: Max Sobolev (macsmr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-25 09:13:02

On 25.05.2011 15:49, Eric Niebler wrote:
> (fixing attribution...)
>
> On 5/23/2011 11:42 PM, Robert Jones wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Steven Watanabe wrote:
>>> At some point in time, Eric Niebler wrote:
>>>>          And what is wrong with leaving bind in the boost namespace as I was
>>>>          suggesting and define boost::function like this:
>>>>
>>>>            namespace boost {
>>>>              namespace function_adl_block {
>>>>                template<class Sig>
>>>>                struct function {...};
>>>>              }
>>>>              using function_adl_block::function;
>>>>            }
>>>>
>>>>          Now the "boost" namespace is no longer associated with
>>>>          boost::function,
>>>>          and boost::bind won't be found by ADL.
>
> It's probably a good general policy to move most/all types in Boost into
> ADL-blocking namespaces like above, except those for which there is
> reason to keep boost as an associated namespace.

cool technique (for building more modular software / libs)!