From: Ronald Garcia (garcia_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-10 13:30:58
On Dec 31, 2004, at 9:59 PM, Eelis van der Weegen wrote:
> In a project of mine I use a (global) copy_n function template (that
> copies the first n elements of one sequence to another). When I tried
> using my copy_n with an iterator returned by multi_array<..>::begin, I
> got some unexpected argument mismatches. It turned out that
> multi_array/algorithm.hpp defines an undocumented boost::copy_n
> function template (with a different argument order than my own
> copy_n), which was selected instead of my own copy_n due to ADL.
>
> I'm not sure this is a "bug", but it seems to me that this
> boost::copy_n should either be documented, or placed in boost::detail
> so it won't conflict with user defined copy_n's (like it did in my
> case).
>
> Regards,
>
> Eelis
>
Greetings,
Yes, that was an oversight on my part. copy_n has now been moved into
the detail namespace.
Thanks for catching that.
Cheers,
ron