adeht wrote:

> Why won't the standard allow the following?
>
> namespace MyNS::Private
> {
>     // ...
> }
>

This is something Mathematica supports for its packages. I've wondered the
same thing.  I haven't proposed this for C++ simply because I had not come
across a use for it in C++.  How would such a construct benefit the
language?

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""Steven T. Hatton"" <hattons@globalsymmetry.com> wrote in message
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> This is something Mathematica supports for its packages. I've wondered the
> same thing.  I haven't proposed this for C++ simply because I had not come
> across a use for it in C++.  How would such a construct benefit the
> language?

I didn't search, sorry about that. Here's the proposal:
http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2003/n1524.htm

You can read about the possible uses for that in the paper.

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"adeht" wrote:
> Why won't the standard allow the following?
>
> namespace MyNS::Private
> {
>     // ...
> }

because

namespace MyNS
{
  namespace Private
  {
    // ...
  }
}

works just fine as-is.

Analogously, you can't write

class MyNS::MyClass
{
  // ...
};

but have to write

namespace MyNS
{
  class MyClass
  {
    //...
  };
}

-cd

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ab4ds@hotmail.com ("adeht") wrote in message news:<407c201b$1@news.bezeqint.net>...
> Why won't the standard allow the following?
>
> namespace MyNS::Private
> {
>     // ...
> }
>

Perhaps because you can accomplish what you want with:

namespace MyNS
{
  namespace Private
  {
  }
}

Then anything in Private is accessed as MyNS::Private::whatever.

Randy.

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Why won't the standard allow the following?

namespace MyNS::Private
{
    // ...
}

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