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From: myknees AT aol DOT com (Myknees)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Namespaces
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Date: 28 Aug 1998 21:54:05 GMT
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

In a message dated 98-08-28 12:04:41 EDT, you write:

> Subj:	 Re: Namespaces
>  Date:	98-08-28 12:04:41 EDT
>  From:	s257m AT unb DOT ca (Endlisnis)
>  To:	myknees AT AOL DOT COM (Myknees)
>  
>  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.

See you!
--Ed (Myknees)

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