Re: rel_ops (was Re: GCC 3.1 Release)

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

--On Tuesday, April 16, 2002 07:49:23 PM +0200 Gabriel Dos Reis 
<gdr@codesourcery.com> wrote:

> Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
>| > I'm not going to ask that the comment be stricken, but I'm not crazy
>| > about the idea of a lot of editorial commentary in the headers.
>|
>| I agree.
>
> Mark,
>
>   I don't think I were attacking anything in saying that std::rel_ops
> isn't friendly since it is a *fact* that they tend take over operators
> that would have been selected otherwise -- they are "isolated" but as
> soon as they're brought into scope, they tend to things.

I should admit that I didn't read the comment.  (I still haven't.)  I
should have before making any comment.

Let's not take this any further; everyone's thrilled that the bug is
fixed!  I'm grateful to Joe for pointing out the problem and proposing
a patch, Paolo for developing it further, and you for moving the stuff
into namespaces and incorporating the whole bit.  Me, I just sit in the
middle and watch all you folks work. :-)

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