Re: [boost] Boost implementation of the Library TR?

2003-04-30 Thread Douglas Gregor
On Wednesday 30 April 2003 08:25 am, Beman Dawes wrote: > * What namespace should the Boost version go in? > >("tr1" is "t", "r", followed by numeral one, and is the committee's >tentative choice for a sub-namespace.) > >std::tr1 // well, this IS an implementation of the standard TR >

RE: [boost] Boost implementation of the Library TR?

2003-04-30 Thread Hartmut Kaiser
Richard Hadsell wrote: > Beman Dawes wrote: > > > * What if the committee changes the namespace? > > > > Hum... That could happen. Maybe we should use a macro to > make it easy > > to change. > > A macro would be ugly, unless it looked just like the namespace. Can > you define a macro to

Re: [boost] Boost implementation of the Library TR?

2003-04-30 Thread Richard Hadsell
Beman Dawes wrote: * What if the committee changes the namespace? Hum... That could happen. Maybe we should use a macro to make it easy to change. A macro would be ugly, unless it looked just like the namespace. Can you define a macro to make std::tr1 be equivalent to std::tr2? Can't you d

[boost] Boost implementation of the Library TR?

2003-04-30 Thread Beman Dawes
The acceptance of numerous Boost libraries into the C++ committee's Library Technical Report (TR) raises a bunch of "where does Boost go from here?" questions. My tentative answers, based partially on private discussion with Gregor, Joel de Guzman, Jaakko Jarvi, and others, is given for each qu