[boost] Re: namespace{#include} (Was: Boost Integer Library)

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-08-23 07:26:00

Valentin Bonnard wrote:

>Beman Dawes wrote:
>> 
>> Valentin Bonnard wrote:
>
>> >AFAIK, you are _never_ allowed to include a standard header
inside
>> >a namespace. 
>
>> Yes, but <boost/stdint.h> isn't a C++ standard header. 
>
>But <stdint.h> and <limits.h> are. They are indirectly injected 
>in namespace boost.

That's true of the particular implementation, but it isn't part of
the specified interface.  So if their inclusion causes problems,
rewrite the implementation.

If you can figure out a portable implementation which doesn't use
those C headers, that would be better.  But using them was the only
way I saw to get the desired effect.

--Beman