From: Ben Hutchings (ben.hutchings_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-07 10:28:16
Peter Dimov wrote:
> Ian McCulloch wrote:
>
>> Peter Dimov wrote:
<snip>
>>> * If four libraries need the same operation, you need to specialize
>>> four primary templates.
>>
>>
>> Compare to four libraries using an ADL lookup on the same function
>> name, but requiring different semantics?
>
>
> Then these libraries are incompatible with each other, which will be
> reported as a bug.
How does one decide which library the bug is in? Doesn't this potential
for incompatibility mean that ADL erases to a large extent the intended
benefit of namespaces?
Ben.