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From: jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: FYI: A Truly pd yacc. (zoo or what is in a name)
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Date: 11 Sep 89 17:56:06 GMT
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Well, hopefully this experience will at least serve as a cautionary warning
against the use of global naming schemes.  If you want your code to be
widely usable/reusable, don't use global naming.  When shell programming,
you don't have much choice.  When C++ programming you do have a choice.

Avoid using globals wherever possible.  Avoid giving classes names with
universal meaning like: "object", "string", etc, unless you're totally 
convinced *your* implementation is the best in all the world.