How to overload std::swap()

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The right way to overload std::swap‘s implemention (aka specializing it), is to write it in the same namespace as what you’re swapping, so that it can be found via argument-dependent lookup (ADL). One particularly easy thing to do is:

class X
{
    // ...
    friend void swap(X& a, X& b)
    {
        using std::swap; // bring in swap for built-in types

        swap(a.base1, b.base1);
        swap(a.base2, b.base2);
        // ...
        swap(a.member1, b.member1);
        swap(a.member2, b.member2);
        // ...
    }
};

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