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

From: John C. Femiani (john.femiani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-17 19:31:56

David Abrahams wrote:
> on Thu Jul 17 2008, "John C. Femiani" <john.femiani-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Michiel Helvensteijn wrote:
>>     
>>> rhaps 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.
>   
What aspect wouldn't work as I expected?  Do you mean that overloads of 
repr that aren't in namespace boost could occlude ::boost::repr? In that 
case its a lot like ::boost::begin I think. The point of repr was to 
avoid putting an overload operator<< into namespace std.

--John