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Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 21:40:16 -0500
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From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: Really strange question about DJ headers.
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At 08:00 PM 2/2/99 -0500, you wrote:
>All my reference says is "A standard header never includes another
>standard header.  A standard header declares or defines only the
>entities described for it ..."

Ah. So someone did care about namespace pollution, on the standard
committee. Probably was Stroustrup then ;-)

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