Hi, I have a question about the last of the WebKit Coding Style Guidelines:
http://webkit.org/coding/coding-style.html It's the second of these two: 1. Any "using namespace" statements for a nested namespace whose parent namespace is also defined in a file must be declared within that namespace definition. 2. Any other "using namespace" statements must be declared before the first namespace definition in the file. Unlike most or all of the other rules, this one can affect compilation. So I was wondering what the rule is for. For example, say I want to write the following in an existing header file to avoid having to fully qualify several identifiers in the WTF namespace: namespace MyNewNameSpace { using namespace WTF; // code } Following rule 2 and putting the using statement outside the namespace can cause compilation errors elsewhere in the project (due to ambiguous overloads for bringing the WTF namespace into files already including the above). This actually happened to me while doing some minor refactoring. If I want to keep the "using namespace" statement, it seems like the style guideline would require me to do an unknown amount of refactoring outside the file. Let me know your thoughts. Thanks, --Chris _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
