OSLib Namespace for C++

[Ainsley Pereira]

In message <NIxKKBA3fqM5Ew8k at mk-net.demon.co.uk>
          Tony van der Hoff <OSLib at mk-net.demon.co.uk> wrote:


> 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.

Well, whilst I don't think it is a good idea to put that in the headers
(perhaps do like the standard library and have headers which do and
headers which don't), there is a use. If you do get a clash, you have
the ability to specify which one you want by explicitly putting
OSLib::name.

~A.

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