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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: namespace (rethought & reiterated)
Message-ID: <3353@litchi.bbn.com>
Date: 7 Mar 91 17:36:45 GMT
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In <5318@vela.acs.oakland.edu> schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Roland Schemers III) writes:
>I just had namespace pollution spoil my weekend. We just got in Motif
>from DEC, and it has C++ compatible headers, so I was all set to 
>start hacking away... Till I noticed they had a 'typedef char *String;'

Here's what I do when something like this happens:
	#define String MOTIF_STRING
	#include <motif/mongo.h>
	#include <motif/sunsux.h>
	...
	#undef MOTIF_STRING
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