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Subject: RE: C++ name with leading underscore character not Compiling
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:53:50 +0100
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On 16 April 2007 12:50, Adye, TJ (Tim) wrote:


> This means that a single leading underscore is fine in local scope, as
> long as it is not followed by an uppercase letter (I am only aware of
> conflicts with a single upper-case character (eg. _L), but I think the
> standard would also prevent _Local).
> 
> So, the case here ("_name" as an argument name) should be fine.

  Except that that was just an example, and in fact a misleading one, because
what Chelton's code was /actually/ using was "_N"...  hence the problem.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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