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Re: What about namespaces ?

From Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: What about namespaces ?
Date 2012-04-04 07:20 +1200
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On 04/ 4/12 04:10 AM, Robert Wessel wrote:
>>
>> So, with this in mind, what are your thoughts on the idea of introducing
>> namespaces to the C programming language?  Would it be a bad idea?
>
> I don't think anyone really likes namespaces as done in C++ (or in
> most other implementations).  It works, but...

Eh?

> C++-style classes are probably much more useful in that regard.  It
> effectively does isolate all the class member names behind a prefix
> (the class name), and often allows short (unprefixed) access to the
> members.  In the real world, the number of name clashes per line of
> C++ code is vastly lower than for C code.  Namespaces work best on top
> of that.

There's one big difference between a namespace and a struct/class in 
C++:  a namespace can be split between multiple files.  Otherwise we 
could just use a struct to emulate a namespace in C.

-- 
Ian Collins

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What about namespaces ? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-04-03 10:25 +0100
  Re: What about namespaces ? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-04-03 11:20 +0100
    Re: What about namespaces ? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-03 22:29 +1200
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    Re: What about namespaces ? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-04-03 12:19 -0700
      Re: What about namespaces ? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-04-03 20:57 +0100
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    Re: What about namespaces ? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-04-03 19:54 +0100
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    Re: What about namespaces ? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-04-03 20:12 +0100
    Re: What about namespaces ? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-04 07:20 +1200
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  Re: What about namespaces ? William Ahern <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2012-04-03 12:05 -0700
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    Re: What about namespaces ? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-04-03 21:27 +0100
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        Re: What about namespaces ? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2012-04-12 10:55 +0200
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  Re: What about namespaces ? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-04 14:54 +1200
    Re: What about namespaces ? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-04 15:43 +1200
      Re: What about namespaces ? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-04-04 16:06 +1200
  Re: What about namespaces ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-04-04 04:37 +0100
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