[C++-sig] operators

David Abrahams dave at boost-consulting.com
Thu Oct 10 17:02:52 CEST 2002


Stefan Seefeld <stefan.seefeld at orthosoft.ca> writes:

> hi there,
> 
> operators.hpp imports certain functions (such as 'str')
> into the global namespace, instead of the namespace
> boost::python. That looks like an error...

It's only on broken compilers which don't support Koenig Lookup, and
it's intentional. The negative impact should be limited due to the
fact that these functions only operate on objects of type
boost::python::self_ns::self_t. Do you anticipate a real problem with
this?

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