OSLib Namespace for C++

[Tony van der Hoff]

I propose to introduce an OSLib namespace for use with g++. CFront
doesn't support namespaces, and it needs to be introduced in a
backwards-compatible way.

The way I propose to do it is to bracket all declarations in the headers
between 

  #if defined NAMESPACE_OSLIB
    namespace OSLib {
  #endif
   .
   .
   .
  #if defined NAMESPACE_OSLIB
    }
  #endif

Anyone wanting to use the namespace would define NAMESPACE_OSLIB before
including any OSLib headers. Unfortunately this requires proactive
involvement by the user, and on the basis that namespaces are a good
thing, that's a shame.

It would be nice to make this definition automatic, based on 
  #if defined __CPLUSPLUS && !defined __CC_NORCROFT
    #define NAMESPACE_OSLIB
  #endif
but that would not be backwards compatible. I doubt that any serious
applications have yet been written using OSLib and g++, given the bool
problem, but nonetheless, I don't think we can afford to do it.

Stroustrup suggests appending the headers with 
  using namespace OSLib;
thus making it global, but that seems to me to defeat the objective of a
namespace.

Comments anyone?
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