Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!hsdndev!rutgers!dimacs.rutgers.edu!morley.rutgers.edu!purtill From: purtill@morley.rutgers.edu (Mark Purtill) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: c++ name mangler sought Message-ID: Date: 8 Apr 91 17:41:27 GMT References: <71574@microsoft.UUCP> <41560@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1991Apr3.170401.4903@netcom.COM> <18279@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM> <655@taumet.com> Distribution: usa Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 15 steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) writes: >The name-space pollution problem is a thorny one. There have been >some proposals, none of which was judged adequate. The issue always >seems to hang up on the idea of a central clearing-house for names. >How is this to be done, remembering that international cooperation >is required? A central clearing-house for names sounds like a dreadful idea to me. How are you going to force vendors to register their names? Answer: you can't. It seems to me that some sort of module structure would be a better idea. I'm sure this has been suggested -- why was it judged not adequate? ^.-.^ Mark Purtill purtill@dimacs.rutgers.edu (908)932-4580 (O) ((")) DIMACS, P.O. Box 1179, Rutgers U., Piscataway, NJ 08855 (908)220-6905 (H) ********** Note new area code! We are now (908) rather than (201)! **********