Am 30.05.2010 16:44, schrieb Warp:

>    That's quite a lot of information that a simple 'std::' is conveying. More
> importantly, the 'std::' prefix is making the line a lot more unambiguous
> because you know you don't have to look where the definition of 'equal()'
> might be, as you know it's a standard function. Hence the code is much
> easier to understand more quickly and with less work.

I dare to disagree: I think it may make code more readable in some way, 
but at the same time make it less readable in some other way.

Readable != Readable. It depends whether you want to analyze in-depth 
how code /exactly/ does things, or whether you want to get a general 
overview of what the code does. Making consequent use of namespace 
prefixes helps for the former, but I guess it won't do too much good (if 
at all) for the latter, as for that purpose it just adds more 
information to digest when browsing the code; to a casual browser, it 
isn't important whether the smart_ptr is a std::smart_ptr or a 
boost::smart_ptr.

Warp, I think you're oversimplifying, as you often do (though you're not 
alone in that).

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