Re: Rice distribution

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>]

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Paolo Carlini <paolo.carlini@oracle.com> wrote:
>> I get your point, but to be honest I'm not 100% sure the issues in this area
>> are so simple. In my opinion, conservatively, before adding further
>> non-uglified names to that namespace we should find the time to re-analyze
>> in detail:
>>
>>     http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24537
>
> I haven't seen much of a discussion there.  Let me ask, what is the
> real problem?  I doubt macros should be considered a problem.  As said
> before, the chosen, new names are long and really shouldn't conflict.
> In the C library additions are made without leading underscores and
> there really haven't been any big problems.  And macros are much more
> frequent in C.
>
> The only possible problem I can see is if we add names without
> underscores to __gnu_cxx and they later are used, perhaps in a
> slightly changed form, in std.  What if programs use
>
> using namespace std;
> using namespace __gnu_cxx;
> beta_distribution<> v;
>
>
> Is this the problem people are afraid of?

I am inclined to tell people "don't do that if it hurts.
Bring into scope what you really need; not a
blanket statement."

-- Gaby