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In article ejv@nnrp1.news.primenet.com, kj7bg@primenet.com (Bob White) writes:

>Assuming that the "string" class is properly defined in namespace "std", is it 
>legal to do the following:

>class xyz : public std::string {
>}

>I am trying to do this with Visual C++ v4.0 and it is giving me an INTERNAL 
>COMPILER ERROR.  I thought that this was legal syntax, but am not certain.
>Thanks in advance for your help.

Yes, it's valid. Sounds like growing pains regarding a new language feature.

Try this as a workaround:

	using std::string;
	class xyz : public string { ...	};

The difference is that std::string is now placed in the current scope 
as "string", which might collide with other names in the program.
Ideally, you will abandon "string" as a user identifier because it is
the name of a standard class. Using "string" for other purposes
will be confusing and make future maintenance more difficult.
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Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com
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