Re: "namespaces were a mistake"

From	Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	Re: "namespaces were a mistake"
Date	2011-06-15 07:15 +0900
Message-ID	<874o3sgivg.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (permalink)
References	(7 earlier) <slrnivbgoj.gtj.grahn+nntp@frailea.sa.invalid> <namespaces-20110613165149@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <slrnivcqkc.gtj.grahn+nntp@frailea.sa.invalid> <buowrgp2fc2.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> <C90-20110614173346@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>

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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>>Seriously.  I _love_ namespaces, they're so convenient and painless
>>compared the (...) "make all your symbol names 5000 characters long
>>just in case" game we have to play in C
>
>   C90 requires that an implementation needs to have at least
>   the first six characters of an external identifier to be
>   significant. So, a portable C90 program should have all
>   external identifiers differ in the first six characters.

Thank god pretty much everybody ignored that...

-miles

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