From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Martin von Loewis <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: law@cygnus.com
Cc: rittle@comm.mot.com, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Implications of tighter integration of libg++
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 07:13:00 -0000
Message-id: <199802091507.QAA06511@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <5837.887019874@hurl.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998-02/msg00356.html

> Just my opinions -- the g++ folks might have different ideas about this
> whole area.

I think about namespaces from time to time. It seems that proper
namespace support will quite dramatically change the library
interface. Everything in libstdc++ is supposed to live in namespace
std{}; and names in there should be different from application-defined
names. So as a result, every name will be qualified with Q23std in the
long run.

I'm not sure how the .h header files of libstdc++ should be handled;
the standard allows to use them for backwards compatibility. Perhaps
g++ will still need to special-case namespace std, and generate the
appropriate aliases.

What do you think?

Martin