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Re: Using "using" and namespace pollution from header files

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On 30.06.2011 13:00, Juha Nieminen wrote:
> Urs Thuermann<urs@isnogud.escape.de>  wrote:
>> What is current or wide-spread best-practice?
>
>    The most common coding guideline is that the 'using' keyword should
> never be used in a header file.
>
>    (Ok, the 'using' keyword has another role besides dealing with namespaces.
> There are certain situations where you have to tell in a derived class that
> a function in the base class should be visible in the derived class, but
> that has nothing to do with namespaces. The guideline is only about bringing
> names from namespaces to other namespaces.)
>
>    Personally I follow the rule "never use 'using'" (except in those rare
> cases where its role has nothing to do with namespaces, of course). I find
> that the code becomes more readable and easier to understand with the
> namespace prefixes than without them. For some strange reason most people
> seem to think the opposite. I don't understand that.

I agree with your last paragraph, but only when the length of the 
namespace prefixes is within a reasonable length.

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Using "using" and namespace pollution from header files Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> - 2011-06-30 12:31 +0200
  Re: Using "using" and namespace pollution from header files Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2011-06-30 11:00 +0000
    Re: Using "using" and namespace pollution from header files RaZiel <raziel_206_@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-02 03:25 +0200
    Re: Using "using" and namespace pollution from header files SG <s.gesemann@gmail.com> - 2011-07-01 18:48 -0700

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