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Article #946Re: type/member tags
From: Chip Salzenberg
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1991 17:56
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1991 17:56
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According to rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette):
>In article <27D3E544.619A@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>+The class name is already guaranteed to be unique (name equivalence
>+and all that). What need of more?
>
>Not only are file-scope class names not guaranteed to be unique across
>multiple independent compilation units (which may later be combined to
>form a single program) but class names need not even be unique *within*
>a single compilation unit.
Quite right; I had forgotton about local types.
On the other hand, I do not believe that avoidance of local types for
persistent and/or transmitted data is too much to ask of a programmer,
especially since such a restriction would avoid the need for two class
names (lexical and unique).
--
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
"Most of my code is written by myself. That is why so little gets done."
-- Herman "HLLs will never fly" Rubin
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pdn!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: type/member tags Message-ID: <27DD1669.C42@tct.uucp> Date: 12 Mar 91 17:56:57 GMT References: <1399@culhua.prg.ox.ac.uk> <27D3E544.619A@tct.uucp> <4338@lupine.NCD.COM> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 20