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Document number: N3730

Date: 2013-08-28

Specializations and namespaces

by Mike Spertus

Excerpt:

We propose to allow specializing templates from within a different namespace. The motivation is that when we declare a new class, it is natural to want to provide associated template specializations. For example, it is really painful that whenever I declare a class, I need to class all open namespaces and enter namespace std just to specialize std::hash as shown below ...