On 2022-07-12 7:50 p.m., Jonathan Wakely wrote:

> Yeah, and I don't think optimizing for indentation is the right trade off. 
> Putting something in a namespace with a three-letter name just so you don't 
> have to re-indent some statements in a few years seems odd.
> 
> I see no technical difficulty replacing a custom make_unique (in any 
> namespace) with std::make_unique at a later date.
> 
> If a namespace made sense to avoid name clashes, or to enable finding 
> functions by ADL, or other technical reasons, I'd be all for it. But no such 
> rationale was given, and using a namespace for indentation just seems odd to 
> me.
> 
> But I really don't care. Putting it in the global namespace or a 'gcc' 
> namespace or anything else appropriate to GCC is fine. I'll leave this thread 
> now. I don't think this is very constructive and I'm sorry for objecting to 
> the suggestion.

That's fair.  Cheers!  Hope we'll be able to laugh about it in Prague!

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