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From: Ben Hutchings (ben.hutchings_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-07 10:28:16
Peter Dimov wrote:
> Ian McCulloch wrote:
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>> Peter Dimov wrote:
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>>> * If four libraries need the same operation, you need to specialize
>>> four primary templates.
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>> Compare to four libraries using an ADL lookup on the same function
>> name, but requiring different semantics?
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> Then these libraries are incompatible with each other, which will be
> reported as a bug.
How does one decide which library the bug is in? Doesn't this potential
for incompatibility mean that ADL erases to a large extent the intended
benefit of namespaces?
Ben.
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