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From: rae@alias.com (Reid Ellis)
Subject: Re: "module" facility for top-level namespace control
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 17:40:33 GMT

Why don't we simply use a syntax which already evokes this concept --
using "extern"?

I don't know if another keyword after the extern is necessary, or
simply the name of the enclosing scope.  Something like the following?

extern NIH {
#include <NIHCL.h>
};
					Reid
						-- still red from not seeing
						-- the "static class {} var;"
						-- option. :)
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