using namespace A if any_of{X, Y, Z}

One could see it as limitation of using namespace instead.

any_of loosely based on pattern matching proposals.
 

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On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 11:21 PM Arthur O'Dwyer via Std-Proposals <std-proposals@lists.isocpp.org> wrote:

FWIW, I'm strongly opposed to this. (And I did a double-take at Barry's post: is it April Fool's Day already?)  C++ isn't Perl; we don't use Unix shell globs like that. In C++, curly braces have a couple of different meanings (code block, initializer-sequence), but not "shell glob."

 

Compare:

 

using A::{X,Y,Z};

 

and

 

enum A {X,Y,Z};

 

Notice, both are comma-separated brace-enclosed lists of names.  Also, in both cases, each name is introduced into its parent scope.

 

A slight alteration we could consider would be:

 

using A {X,Y,Z};

 

(drop the extra ::), and then perhaps that seems more natural?

 

It's a common coding style to have a big block of usings at the top of a .cpp file.  This feature would significantly shorten that block.

 

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