What are the pitfalls of ADL?

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Published on 2010-06-02T14:28:20Z Indexed on 2010/06/02 14:34 UTC
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Some time ago I read an article that explained several pitfalls of argument dependent lookup, but I cannot find it anymore. It was about gaining access to things that you should not have access to or something like that. So I thought I'd ask here: what are the pitfalls of ADL?

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