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Re: What about namespaces ?

From	Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: What about namespaces ?
Date	2012-04-03 19:54 +0100
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Gordon Burditt wrote:

> In what way would that be an improvement over "Use C++"?
> 
> I see little point in gradually adding features to C to
> try to turn it into C++, or a poor version of it.

Just because C++ has namespaces it doesn't mean that this is an attempt to 
turn C into C++, or into any other language for that matter.  If that was 
the case, the addition of range-based for loops to the C++ programming 
language would also imply that the C++ people were trying to turn C++ into 
Java.

Namespaces can correspond to nothing more than syntactic sugar which happens 
to be considerably useful.  It doesn't make sense to snub any feature, no 
matter how useful it might be, just because some other language already has 
it.

Rui Maciel

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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
      Re: What about namespaces ? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-04-03 12:38 +0100
    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
  Re: What about namespaces ? gordonb.9sh3w@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2012-04-03 06:23 -0500
    Re: What about namespaces ? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-04-03 19:54 +0100
      Re: What about namespaces ? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-04-03 12:18 -0700
        Re: What about namespaces ? jgharston <jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk> - 2012-04-03 13:09 -0700
    Re: What about namespaces ? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-04-03 19:54 +0100
    Re: What about namespaces ? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-04-03 19:54 +0100
  Re: What about namespaces ? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-04-03 06:49 -0700
  Re: What about namespaces ? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-04-03 11:10 -0500
    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
  Re: What about namespaces ? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201204.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2012-04-03 20:58 +0200
    Re: What about namespaces ? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-04-03 21:05 +0100
      Re: What about namespaces ? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-04-03 21:33 +0100
  Re: What about namespaces ? William Ahern <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2012-04-03 12:05 -0700
    Re: What about namespaces ? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-04-03 15:50 -0400
    Re: What about namespaces ? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-04-03 21:27 +0100
      Re: What about namespaces ? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-04-03 14:40 -0700
    Re: What about namespaces ? jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-04-11 20:56 +0000
      Re: What about namespaces ? Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> - 2012-04-11 14:46 -0700
        Re: What about namespaces ? jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-04-11 23:03 +0000
        Re: What about namespaces ? jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-04-13 00:40 +0000
          Re: What about namespaces ? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-04-12 18:56 -0700
            Re: What about namespaces ? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-04-13 13:20 +0100
              Re: What about namespaces ? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-04-13 13:43 -0700
            Re: What about namespaces ? jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-04-15 16:46 +0000
              Re: What about namespaces ? Martin Ambuhl <mambuhl@earthlink.net> - 2012-04-21 04:38 -0400
                Re: What about namespaces ? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-04-21 16:44 +0100
      Re: What about namespaces ? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-04-11 23:01 +0100
        Re: What about namespaces ? jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-04-13 21:04 +0000
      Re: What about namespaces ? lawrence.jones@siemens.com - 2012-04-11 22:09 -0400
        Re: What about namespaces ? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2012-04-12 10:55 +0200
  Re: What about namespaces ? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-04-04 00:17 +0100
    Re: What about namespaces ? William Ahern <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2012-04-03 16:44 -0700
      Re: What about namespaces ? nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com - 2012-04-04 00:49 -0700
  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
    Re: What about namespaces ? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-04-04 18:43 +0000
      Re: What about namespaces ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-04-05 01:43 +0100
  Re: What about namespaces ? "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-04-04 09:32 +0200
  Re: What about namespaces ? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-04-05 11:22 -0700
    Re: What about namespaces ? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-04-05 21:04 +0100
    Re: What about namespaces ? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-04-06 01:10 +0000

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