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From: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP (Piercarlo Grandi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Scoping bug???
Summary: Things are more complicated than this...
Message-ID: <1730@aber-cs.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 90 15:11:07 GMT
Reply-To: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
Organization: Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth
	(Disclaimer: my statements are purely personal)
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In article <1729@aber-cs.UUCP> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
  
  In C++ it has always been true that the scope of a class name is always
  global, modulo redeclarations in inner scopes. In C++ 2.0 the issue of local
  scope class definitions has been clarified, in particular with reference to
  the problem of member functions defined within the local class definition.

I realized that I have not been explicit about splitting hairs finely
enough; all this is somewhat different across the cases of class local to a
class, to a function, whether you are talking 1.2 or 2.0 or later (hints of
revisions), and whether you use G++ or cfront or some other compiler.
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Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi           | ARPA: pcg%cs.aber.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth        | UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!aber-cs!pcg
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