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From: "Arthur" <arfa AT clara DOT net>
To: "DJGPP Mailing List" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Namespaces
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 18:19:09 +0100
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> >  Myknees wrote:
> >  > >What is that? I heard that term now several times and I don't have a =
> >  > >clue. :)
> >  > It's a new feature in C++ that lets you put all the names in a library in
> > their
> >  > own little package, so that by using the libary you don't have to have all
>
> > of
> >  > those names conflicting with names in other libraries.
> >  >
> >  > e.g. The standard library functions would be in namespace std.  It looks
> > like
> >  > this:
> >  > mylibspace::print();
> >  >
> >  > ...where mylibspace is a namespace.
> >  	Isn't that just a 'class'?
>
> You can think of a class as a struct where all the members are private by
> default.  A namespace is not a data structure; it's a scope, so it's different.

If DJGPP doesn't support namespaces, then doesn't that mean that GNU C++ doesn't
conform to C++ standards?

James Arthur
jaa AT arfa DOT clara DOT net
ICQ#15054819