[Boost-users] Re: [Foreach]TroubleiteratingoverBoost.MultiIndexcontainers

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-08 16:00:45

"David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:usm35lvo0.fsf_at_boost-consulting.com...
| "Thorsten Ottosen" <nesotto_at_[hidden]> writes:

| > no, I was going to find user's adl_end() function via ADL. So this changes 
the
| > extension protocol
| > to overloading adl_end() from overloading end().
|
| So, how does that keep ADL from kicking in?  It doesn't.

no, we want ADL to kick in.

| I guess the ugly adl_ prefix

do you now anything less ugly? It clearly states the purpose of the function.

| might protect you from most accidental
| collisions, but I'd rather see something that couldn't end up being a
| useful acronym in some other context
|
| 
http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=adl&Find=Find
|
| adl_end seems very likely to collide.

does it? there is always some suffix, like _end(), _begin(), _size(), 
_empty().

on top of that there must also be collision wrt. the number of parameters.

-Thorsten