Adding types to the std namespace

Question

Is it acceptable to add types to the std namespace. For example, I want a TCHAR-friendly string, so is the following acceptable?

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Answer 1

This is an interesting question because it's completely subjective to the project and the engineers' accepted coding standards.

For a single programmer, why not... just be careful.

For teams, make a standard...

For a cross-platform project, hell yeah.

Otherwise, nawdawg.