Rnnlib installation range error - boost

Question

I am installing rnnlib through https://github.com/meierue/RNNLIB
After installing the boost and other and completing other steps I am getting the error- SeqBuffer.hpp:227: error: reference to ‘range’ is ambiguous
Helpers.hpp:298: error: candidates are: template<class T> std::pair<boost::iterators::counting_iterator<Incrementable, boost::iterators::use_default, boost::iterators::use_default>, boost::iterators::counting_iterator<Incrementable, boost::iterators::use_default, boost::iterators::use_default> > range(const T&, const T&)
Makefile:223: recipe for target 'DataExporter.o' failed
make[2]: *** [DataExporter.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/adminhp/Himaanshu/RNNLIB-master/src'
Makefile:217: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/adminhp/Himaanshu/RNNLIB-master'
Makefile:155: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

Answer 1

using namespace strikes again.
Helpers.hpp contains the following damning sequence:
using namespace std;
using namespace boost;
using namespace boost::assign;
using namespace boost::posix_time;
using namespace boost::gregorian;
Frankly, at this point I'd give up. Especially the first two lines are the moral equivalent of carpet bombing. With napalm.¹
UPDATE Created a pull request with the changes required to make the code compile.
To further compound the problem, RNNLIB's range facility is not even in a namespace...
So, the upshot is that range collides with the namespace from boost.
The simplest way to remove the clash is to qualify all the loopy uses of range as ::range...
PS. same comes up with equal later on
¹ Why is "using namespace std" considered bad practice?