C23 is finished: Here is what is on the menu

Re:C23 is finished: Here is what is on the menu by pjmlp on Friday August 05, 2022 @07:59AM (#32354866)

    using namespace my_better_name = my_module;

    //....

    my_better_name::create(); // colision gone

Problem solved, better improve your C++ knowledge.

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Re:C23 is finished: Here is what is on the menu by Arch-TK on Friday August 05, 2022 @11:11AM (#32357281)

This addresses one (very uninteresting) "problem" shown by the person you are replying to. A problem which can be solved regardless of the existence of "using namespace a = b;" by simply not using the namespace. There are still all the other problems which are more concrete but which namespaces can't solve.

The C standard library should have (maybe as early as C11 or C99) picked stdc_ as a "namespace", reserved it, made it a warning to put things in it, and used it for everything going forwards.

What C needs is not namespaces, it's a module system, so that symbol visibility can be more tightly controlled.

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Re:C23 is finished: Here is what is on the menu by pjmlp on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:26PM (#32358365)

Good luck with that.

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