From -589467561259328842 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,47ad86575b18887f X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-19 12:07:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!skynet.be!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Francis Glassborow Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: unnamed namespace quesion Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:06:34 GMT Organization: Southfield Microcomputer SS Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: References: <3B54E127.E35402FF@wizard.net> <%9657.11405$Up.339914@sea-read.news.verio.net> Reply-To: Francis Glassborow X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 995569602 mail2news:10321 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.00 U Lines: 24 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:6632 In article , C. M. Heard writes >No, I meant 'namespace scope'. I used that term because it's what appears >in the standard. If I read the standard correctly, the older term 'file >scope' has been superseded by the term 'global scope' and is a special case >of 'namespace scope'. No, file scope is not the same as global scope. A static qualified declaration outside an explicit namespace has internal linkage and is at filescope, if it is not static qualified it has global scope. Yet another place for confusion to reign. Francis Glassborow ACCU 64 Southfield Rd Oxford OX4 1PA +44(0)1865 246490 All opinions are mine and do not represent those of any organisation --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.research.att.com/~austern/csc/faq.html ]