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From: garnett@roadster.bellcore.com (Michael Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Monthly posting of Turbo-C++ bug list
Message-ID: <1991Jan4.113310@roadster.bellcore.com>
Date: 3 Jan 91 15:02:10 GMT
References: <9101010531.AA05142@cheetah.ece.clarkson.edu>
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In article <9101010531.AA05142@cheetah.ece.clarkson.edu>,
cline@cheetah.ece.clarkson.edu (Marshall Cline) writes:
|> 
|> Severity:   ??
|> Workaround: None provided
|> Versions:   ??
|> Disclaimer: I haven't personally checked this -- MPC
|> Thanks to:  Joseph Puglielli, Santa Barbara, CA
|> 
|> The following two `x's shouldn't conflict, since `x' is a local
`type'
|> in each class.  However they do conflict.
|> 
|> 	class A {  enum x { zero,  one,    two  };  };
|> 	class B {  enum x { apple, orange, pear };  };
|> 
|>
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	C++ does not support type nesting until 2.1.  TC++ is a 2.0 compiler.
	Hence, the name conflict.  In 2.1, their names are A::x and B::x. 

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