Re: Re: Synopsis Question

David Abrahams wrote:

>>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.

Huh ? Isn't an anonymous (or 'unnamed' as per the spec 7.3.1.1) namespace
specifically provided to avoid accidental ODR violations, i.e. to make symbols
local to the file containing that anonymous namespace ?

Regards,
		Stefan