On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:14:15AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Should we discuss allowing 'using namespace std;' in .cpp files? > > > > Quite few changes we do are related to the 'using' lines, and there > > is no actual gain. If there were a real conflict we'd jsut rename our > > stuff (and there is none that I am aware of, actually) > > I do not care much but have nevertheless a question: if we work inside > the std:: and lyx:: namespace, what are we protecting ourselves from > by using namespaces?
Mainly from conflicts between std::foo and lyx::foo. There is currently no such conflict as fa as I can tell, the potential of future is small as we use camelBump and not std_like identifiers and we have full control over our names (as opposed to, say, library vendors that need to keep old identifiers around), so we can easily switch even if a std::BufferView would show up at some point of time. So basically not much gain (if any at all), but quite a bit of housekeeping... Andre'
