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From: iltchenko@yahoo.com (Andrei Iltchenko)
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Subject: Re: unnamed namespace quesion
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:58:42 GMT
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"James Kuyper Jr." <kuyper@wizard.net> wrote in message news:<3B54E127.E35402FF@wizard.net>...

> Paul Mensonides wrote:
> > 
> > Is it legal to define a function outside of an unnamed namespace?
> > 
> > namespace {
> >     void f();
> > }
> > 
> > void f() {
> >     return;
> > }
> 
> Yes. What you've done there is define f() in the global namespace.
> 
> > If it isn't, it should be.  Defining functions in a nested fashion is annoying,
> > and it makes me (and possibly others) prefer 'static' functions:
> > 
> > static void f() {
> >     return;
> > }
> 
> That use of static is officially deprecated, in favor of the following:
> > namespace {
> >     void f() {
> >         return;
> >     }
> > }

The Standard only depricates namespace scope _object declarations_
that feature the keyword static. No mentioning of _function
declarations_ is made. See 7.3.1.1/2 and D.2/1.


Regards,

Andrei Iltchenko.

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