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From: danw@tekchips.LABS.TEK.COM (Daniel E. Wilson)
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Subject: Re: Are Class Decl.'s Legal in Funcs ?
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Date: 6 Apr 89 20:26:24 GMT
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In article <667@oresoft.uu.net>, dan@oresoft.uu.net (Daniel Elbaum) writes:
> A declaration of a class in C++ is similar to a declaration of a struture
> in C.  The template may be declared and used in any block, and the scope
> of the template definition is the block within which it is defined.  The
> same is true for any data type.  C certainly has nested scoping.

   A structure or class nested in a sturcture or a class will have a global
scope in C++.  Yes, this is very annoying and unexpected since it differs
from what C does.  Unless the language has been changed recently.

Dan Wilson