<p dir="ltr">In general, I agree with avoiding/removing redundant gmx prefixes. However, some simple types make sense with the prefix, because we wish to be able to hide/change the implementation later.</p>
<p dir="ltr">For example, there is at least one smart pointer in that category, because there was no c++98 way to get the full job done. In twenty years when even Fujitsu support c++11, removing the prefix will be reasonable.</p>
<p dir="ltr">There was an earlier thread about gmx_bool, too, that I think resolved that new code should use proper bool. gmx_bool is typedefed to an int. Vestiges of it will be around for a while.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Mark</p>
<div class="gmail_quot<blockquote class=" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">My understanding is that our c++ convention is to use the gmx namespace, right?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The example there of gmx::gmx_unique_ptr does seem a little redundant. If we're using the gmx namespace, then it would seem we'd want to ditch the gmx prefix. Is that what you're suggesting, Berk?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thanks,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">--Peter</span><br>
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and of Biomedical Engineering<br>University of Virginia<br></div>
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