Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!uunet!taumet!steve From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: c++ name mangler sought Message-ID: <663@taumet.com> Date: 9 Apr 91 15:54:38 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: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego Lines: 21 purtill@morley.rutgers.edu (Mark Purtill) writes: |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. Me, too, hence "inadequate". |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? This doesn't sound familiar. What did you have in mind? -- Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com