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Re: type/member tags

#987
From: Chip Salzenberg
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1991 18:40
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According to rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette):
>According to cok@islsun.Kodak.COM (David Cok):
>+I agree that class names can be reused in local scopes within functions and
>+other classes.   But can they be reused at file scope in different 
>+compilation units?
>
>Why ask me?  Why not try it yourself?  You do have a C++ compiler (or
>translator) don't you?

We have progressed beyond the point of "My compiler allows X,
therefore it's legal", haven't we?

The ARM explicitly notes its dependence on name equivalence.  Flouting
that rule is just asking for trouble.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
   "All this is conjecture of course, since I *only* post in the nude.
    Nothing comes between me and my t.b.  Nothing."   -- Bill Coderre
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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
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Subject: Re: type/member tags
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Date: 27 Mar 91 18:40:17 GMT
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