Uses for anonymous namespaces in header files

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The only situation in which a nameless namespace in header can be useful is when you want to distribute code as header files only. For example, a large standalone subset of Boost is purely headers.

The token ignore for tuples, mentioned in another answer is one example, the _1, _2 etc. bind placeholders are others.

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