Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
> Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> > Supporting draft standard features by default is extremely poor 
> > practice, or more precisely, a serious product defect.

> this is certainly true. However, as far as I understand VS 2010
> includes only that subset of C++0x which is deemed to be stable
> and which will likely be present in other future C++ compilers.
> Despite all reasoning to the contrary, MS folks are not
> completely stupid. They will have picked carefully.

  It is theoretically possible that the C++ standarization committee will
change the name 'shared_ptr' to something else for the precise reason that
the same name is used in a very popular library (ie. boost), in order to
avoid precisely this kind of naming conflicts. (This isn't completely
unprecedent. AFAIK part of the reason why std::unordered_set and
std::unordered_map are named like that instead of hash_set and hash_map
is precisely to avoid naming conflicts with boost.)

  However, even if the standardization committee would indeed end up
changing the name of 'shared_ptr' to something else, it would still be
a bad idea to use both "using namespace std;" and "using namespace boost;"
and assume that no conflicts will ever happen. After all, the namespaces
exist for the precise reason to avoid the conflicts. Getting rid of the
namespaces make their whole purpose moot, and can end up causing problems.

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                                                          - Warp

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