Re: [boost] Namespace policy: putting names in boost::detail

Subject: Re: [boost] Namespace policy: putting names in boost::detail
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-07-04 14:54:59

Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> A GSoC student and I are currently converting a library to use the
> namespace boost::simd.
>
> Some of the implementation details of the library are not
> simd-specific, and we would like to use them in some other libraries that 
> extend
> boost::simd.
>
> Would it be ok to put them in the boost::detail namespace, or is that
> considered as bad as putting stuff in the boost namespace?
>
> We need to inject overloads and specializations into a unique
> namespace for boost.simd and NT2, so we could need two names, like
> boost::detail::dispatch and boost::detail::specialize.
>

I think we want to move away from including anything
in boost::detail.  Consider making you're "sublibrary" as

boost::smid::sublibrary.

Should the sublibrary attract wider interest so it
might be considered promotion, all you'll have to do
is do a global replace boost::smid::sublibrary <- boost::sublibrary.
In fact, if you've used "using" judiciously in your code
even that would be trivial.

Robert Ramey