Re: [Vxl-maintainers] first casualty of tr1 in vcl

[Brad K. <bra...@ki...>]

Amitha Perera wrote:
> 3. We could do a version of (1) by introducing a vcl namespace, and
> folding both std and std::tr1 into vcl.  Then, vcl_swap can be defined
> to be vcl::swap.  This should work with all new compilers, but may not
> work with some of the older compilers.
[snip]
> On implementation, my preference is (3), (1), then (2).  I put (2) last
> because it would involve a lot of work in vcl.  I think vcl should be as
> thin as possible, and not introduce any new real functions.  (I'm
> considering
>   namespace vcl { using namespace std; }
> as not introducing any real functions.)

See my previous argument for why we cannot do that:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=47D75DCA.1030207%40kitware.com

We could do this though:

namespace vcl
{
  using std::swap;
  using std::tr1::swap;
}
#define vcl_swap vcl::swap

-Brad