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From: uh311ae@sun7.lrz-muenchen.de (Henrik Klagges)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: ARRG! Namespace
Keywords: Namespace pollution
Message-ID: <5299@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>
Date: 2 Nov 90 10:04:31 GMT
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Organization: LRZ, & STM Group at LMU Munich
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ARRGH !
I want C & C++ to implement a name-space policy that can be validated ! I tried
to build a very big package and found the linker complaining about this and that
being undefined. With all these nested #includes, the final solution was:

	grep <undefined-stuff-here> /usr/include/*         8( 8( 8( 
	grep <undefined-stuff-here> /usr/local/include/*   8( 8( 8( 
    grep <forever>

I want:

#include <stdio.h::printf>

printf("This is printf explicitly included.\n");

and

#include <stdio.h>

stdio.h::printf("This is printf implicitly (with stdio.h) included.\n");
stdio.h::printf("Therefore the name has to preceded with the header name.\n");

This would solve a lot of problems, including the monolithic-class-libraries'
designers desire to call his root class "object".

Comments, please.

Yours, Henrik Klagges

Scanning tunnel microscope group at LMU Munich.
uh311ae@sun7.lrz-muenchen.de