Re: [boost] [Review] Type Traits Introspection library by Edward Diener starts tomorrow Friday 1

Subject: Re: [boost] [Review] Type Traits Introspection library by Edward Diener starts tomorrow Friday 1
From: Joel falcou (joel.falcou_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-07-03 10:18:18

On 03/07/11 07:21, Edward Diener wrote:
> You have made a very good point.
>
> My intention, evidently misguided, was to put the generated
> metafunctions in the boost::tti namespace to avoid polluting the global
> namespace. But I see now that I should not have added a namespace at all
> and the end-user could then use the macros in whatever namespace he
> wants in order to avoid ODR violations, and/or just use the complicated
> macro form to create a unique name for the metafunction. Actually, of
> course, that still could be done, but a full metafuncion name of
> 'anamespace::boost::tti::has_type_mytype' is more gruesome than
> 'anamespace::has_type_mytype'.
>
> Thanks for pointing this out.

When i developed the very similar code that you have now, I purposely
made the macro not generate  namespace around. I think that is
what BOOST_MPL_HAS_XXX does anyway. Let the user call the macro in the
namespace of its choice.