Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!novia!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail From: ruben safir Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Anonymous namespace Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 02:29:57 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 10 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: www2.mrbrklyn.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1307082597 17197 96.57.23.82 (3 Jun 2011 06:29:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 06:29:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 SUSE/3.1.10 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c++:6122 On 06/02/2011 10:54 PM, Stefan Ram wrote: >> >What is the point of the anonymous namespace. > Names can be hidden from the linker (from other translation > units), even if they should have external linkage. > please expand?