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Re: #include and namespaces

From "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c++
Subject Re: #include and namespaces
Date 2012-03-03 08:53 +0100
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On 02.03.2012 19:31, Daniel wrote:
> On Mar 2, 8:59 am, Miles Bader<mi...@gnu.org>  wrote:
>> Daniel<danielapar...@gmail.com>  writes:
>>> What would you do about something like boost::gregorian::date? I'm
>>> hesitant to have "date" inside even a custom namespace.
>>
>> Why?  Isn't the entire _point_ of namespaces to make such things
>> reasonable?
>>
> What if the class was some_namespace::i?

     namespace sni = some_namespace::i;

     sni::foobar();


> boost::gregorian::date is a
> little different from that, but not that much different. It doesn't
> help that the standard library and boost both follow naming
> conventions for class names that are not common in other code. Hence,
> perhaps, the greater number of hits accorded "typedef
> boost::gregorian::date Date" etc. versus "using
> boost::gregorian::date".

Yah.


Cheers,

- Alf

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#include and namespaces Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2012-03-01 00:34 -0800
  Re: #include and namespaces Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2012-03-01 07:54 -0500
    Re: #include and namespaces Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2012-03-01 06:38 -0800
      Re: #include and namespaces Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2012-03-01 14:26 -0500
        Re: #include and namespaces Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2012-03-02 00:47 -0800
    Re: #include and namespaces yatremblay@bel1lin202.(none) (Yannick Tremblay) - 2012-03-01 17:38 +0000
      Re: #include and namespaces Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-03-01 18:07 +0000
        Re: #include and namespaces yatremblay@bel1lin202.(none) (Yannick Tremblay) - 2012-03-01 18:52 +0000
          Re: #include and namespaces Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2012-03-01 15:13 -0600
      Re: #include and namespaces "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-01 19:07 +0100
        Re: #include and namespaces yatremblay@bel1lin202.(none) (Yannick Tremblay) - 2012-03-02 08:02 +0000
          Re: #include and namespaces "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-02 11:12 +0100
  Re: #include and namespaces Anand Hariharan <mailto.anand.hariharan@gmail.com> - 2012-03-01 11:20 -0800
    Re: #include and namespaces Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2012-03-01 14:30 -0500
      Re: #include and namespaces "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-01 20:53 +0100
        Re: #include and namespaces Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-03-02 09:51 +0900
        Re: #include and namespaces Daniel <danielaparker@gmail.com> - 2012-03-02 05:13 -0800
          Re: #include and namespaces Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-03-02 22:59 +0900
            Re: #include and namespaces Daniel <danielaparker@gmail.com> - 2012-03-02 10:31 -0800
              Re: #include and namespaces Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2012-03-03 10:54 +0900
              Re: #include and namespaces "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-03-03 08:53 +0100
  Re: #include and namespaces Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2012-03-02 18:37 +0000
    Re: #include and namespaces Luca Cerone <luca.cerone@gmail.com> - 2012-03-03 04:22 -0800

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