"Giovanni Bajo" <giovannibajo@REMOVEliberoTHIS.it> wrote...
> Hello,
>
> why is it not possible to declare a namespace (either expanding it, or
from
> scratch) like:
>
> namespace A::B
> {
>   // ....
> }
>
> This should be exactly equivalent to:
>
> namespace A { namespace B {
>   // ...
> }}
>
> but less verbose, while it's still very intuitive.

What I would like to know is why it is impossible to _extend_
a namespace using its alias...

------------------------------ somewhere
namespace A { namespace B {
    ...
}}
namespace A_B = A::B;
----------------------------- somewhere else
#include <somewhere>
namespace A_B {  // not allowed, must be original-namespace-name
    ...
}
-------------------------------------------

?

It can't be for protection against wild name replacements because
it could be done with macros, anyway.  So, why is it?

Victor
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Hello,

why is it not possible to declare a namespace (either expanding it, or from
scratch) like:

namespace A::B
{
  // ....
}

This should be exactly equivalent to:

namespace A { namespace B {
  // ...
}}

but less verbose, while it's still very intuitive.

Giovanni Bajo

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