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From: glenn@huxley.huxley.bitstream.com (Glenn P. Parker)
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Subject: Re: Scope of return types
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Date: 4 Jan 91 19:54:32 GMT
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In-reply-to: rae@alias.UUCP's message of 3 Jan 91 07:37:18 GMT

In article <rae.662888238@barney> rae@alias.UUCP (Reid Ellis) writes:
> A type can never be nested inside another type.  Thus statements like
> the following are not legal:
> 
>>     A::Color A::x = A::black;	// C++ 2.1 should like this (?)

May I direct your attention to Ellis & Stroustrup: Section 9.7, entitled
"Nested Class Declarations," which implies that such statements are quite
legal, IMHO.  Remember, this is 2.1 we're talking about, not 2.0.

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