Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:05:28AM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote:
>> Andre Poenitz wrote:
>> > So just rename LyX 'ControlRef' to something else.
>>
>> More generally, should we not think of putting the whole of LyX inside
>> namespace lyx at some stage?
>
> Possibly.
>
> But before I agree on doing so I want 'using namespace lyx;' legalized
> within LyX .C source. I certainly won't start writing a few dozen 'using
> lyx::foo; using lyx::bar;' in every file.
Absolutely. I make the suggestion simply as a mechanism to avoid clashes
with the World Outside. Qt seems to be a particularly nasty polluter but we
don't exactly help ourselves in this regard ;-)
> [The headers will get even uglier when prefixing everything with lyx::,
> [but I guess there's no way out in this case...]
More ugly than this? Doesn't seem too bad to me:
#ifndef SOMEFILE_H
#define SOMEFILE_H
#include <all_headers_outside_namespace_scope>
namespace lyx {
...
} // namespace lyx
#endif // NOT SOMEFILE_H
--
Angus
