Re: [Boost-users] [test] BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL type to stream

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-17 18:11:26

on Thu Jul 17 2008, "John C. Femiani" <john.femiani-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> Michiel Helvensteijn wrote:
>> John C. Femiani wrote:
>>
>>   
>>>>> or to specialize boost::test_tools::tt_detail::print_log_value.
>>>>>             
>>>> This I didn't try. It seemed a bit more hack-ish and a bit more work.
>>>>       
>>> Well both legal solutions involve using something from a 'detail'
>>> namespace, which scares me.
>>>     
>>
>> Hm, yes. You're afraid they will change the structure of that namespace from
>> under our feet without even putting it in a changelog.
>>
>> Given that possibility, might it not be better to put it in namespace std
>> anyway...
>>
>> Perhaps they should offer us a real solution in the next version?
>>
>>   
> Perhaps an overloadable ::boost::repr(T) function that translates T
> into a proxy type that can have operator<< overloaded properly.

Except that overloading in namespace boost won't work as you'd like in
many contexts.  You'd need to overload in an associated namespace of T
and call repr without qualification.

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