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!