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>>>>> "NM" == Nathan Myers <ncm@netcom.com> writes:
[...]
NM> Do those teaching C++ agree that namespace std encapsulation is a
NM> failure?  When you write about C++, are you advising readers to
NM> say "using namespace std;"?

I wouldn't call it a failure, but I would like to see some ``topical''
comparting so that I might write:
	using namespace ::std::strings;
or
	using namespace ::std::vectors;
etc. (I'm mentioning these two because I expect they often clash with
existing names, unlike say ostream or valarray.)

Although I've never encouraged anyone to use
	using namespace std;
many have asked me if there was a nice way to only cause part of the
namespace std to be considered for name-lookup.

	Daveed

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