Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> On 21.10.11 21:34, [GDS|Entropy] wrote:
> >  From microsoft connect:
> > http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/522404/share-ptr

> It is actually sufficient to use a boost version aware of the TR1 
> implementation of your library or to disable the TR1 / C++11 support in your 
> library.

>  > Explicitly state: boost::shared_ptr

> That is a kludge, not a solution.

  Because disabling support for the C++ *standard* in the compiler isn't
a kludge. Right.

  (Your position might have had more weight when shared_ptr was only part
of the TR1 extension but not yet part of the C++ standard. However, now
that it is part of the official standard, your argument is just bogus.)

  I'm sorry to say this, and not to disrespect your competence as a C++
programmer, but your stubborness with regard to the language is detrimental.
Explicit namespace qualifications in names are not "kludges". They are not
only a completely normal and standard way of programming, they are actually
the *recommended* way of programming C++ (for the precise reason to avoid
name collisions). If anything, it's the "using namespace" feature that's a
kludge, which got introduced to the first C++ standard mainly for
compatibility with pre-standard compilers (although it does have some uses
in some cases, which do not include dumping an entire namespace into the
global namespace).

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                                                          - Warp

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