Thanks! That worked! I've been puzzling over that for a long time (years, actually).
Sorry about the cross post. I did not cross post until I had waited over a day for it to appear on comp.lang.c++.moderated. When I had not even seen it appear (without a response) I thought it had gone into a black hole like some of my other attempts at posting at comp.lang.c++.moderated. I guess I should have been more patient. I am delighted to have received such a helpful response! Anyway, can anyone speculate with (for) me as to why the compiler (and c++ specification) works this way? It does not seem logical to only search the std namespace. It seems that writing application specific code for the std namespace should be forbidden. Siegfried _______________________________________________ help-gplusplus mailing list help-gplusplus@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gplusplus
