From -4253740320139945584 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,fddfa855dc41ba0d X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f78e5,fddfa855dc41ba0d X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: tony@online.tmx.com.au (Tony Cook) Subject: Re: Namespaces, naming conflicts Date: 1995/06/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 104328641 references: <3r79jk$3se@nms.telepost.no> organization: Home followup-to: comp.lang.c++,comp.std.c++ newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.std.c++ Rune Huseby (Rune.huseby@gpi.telemax.no) wrote: : I know that namespaces was introduced to avoid naming-conflicts across : libraries, but who defines the namespace names? It is possible that two : vendors simultanously defines equal namespaces for their libraries, like : 'ODBCLib' or similar. I would expect that the vendors would try to keep the : namespace names as short as possible, so programmers don't have to write : something similar to 'Microsofts_ODBC_library::Connect()' It's possible for a vendor to define a long name such as Microsofts_ODBC_library and then define a short alias. -- Tony Cook - tony@online.tmx.com.au 100237.3425@compuserve.com