Subject: Re: [boost] Removing Bind placeholders from the global namespace
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-13 14:10:21
AMDG
Peter Dimov wrote:
> This topic has again come up recently in boost-users. I have already
> assigned myself a ticket,
>
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2240
>
> but have done nothing so far, in part because it would break other
> Boost libraries. (Patching placeholders.hpp is trivial in itself.)
>
> This is one case in which the trunk/release procedures don't work well
> as-is unless someone volunteers to produce a patch against all of
> Boost that at once moves the placeholders into namespace
> boost::placeholders _and_ fixes all errors that this would cause.
>
> It'd be easier to split the work: I put the breaking change in and
> then the libraries are fixed one by one. :-)
>
> Comments?
Wouldn't it be possible to have the placeholders in both boost::placeholders
and in the global namespace and deprecate the ones in the global namespace,
so that the changes don't need to be made all at once?
In Christ,
Steven Watanabe