> It's been a while since I coded in C++, but isn't there always a
> simple way out, just by putting these classes in different namespaces?
> (IMHO it's a silly of a library developer to call something "Array"
> and put in into the global namespace,
> hoping that noone else ever is going to call  "Array" something
> entirely different...)

The Array class in Singular probably dates back to the times when templates 
(and namespaces?) weren't stable in any mainstream compiler yet, IIRC

Martin

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