Re: Synopsis Question

Stefan Seefeld <[email protected]> writes:

> Luke Petre wrote:
>
>> Ok, so I looked at the ErrorHandler.cc problem again.  Here is a
>> shorted version of the code, I added comments to the offending bits:
>
> Thanks for looking into this ! Does the file compile if you simply
> replace '::callback' by 'callback' everywhere, i.e. don't qualify
> 'callback' any more ?

Not the best idea; that will allow argument dependent lookup to take
effect.  However, if you replace ::callback by (callback) [yes,
really] it should work.

>> If I change the offending code to:
>
> [...]
>
>> Now there aren't any anonymous namespaces.  Everything is living
>> happily under the Synopsis namespace.
>
> That's right, but that defeats the purpose of the anonymous namespace to
> deliberately hide the symbols it declares from the outside.

??
I haven't been watching this thread carefully, but last time I checked
anonymous namespaces don't hide anything from anybody.

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