On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 03:21:46PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
> Viewed another way, there are a whole lot less throats to scream about a
> similar change in MySQL++. :)
>
> Any comments from the peanut gallery?
Well, tossing my peanuts into the ring, as I recall, mysql++ used to have
"Mysql" appended to each class name. This must have been done before
namespaces became available in the compiler.
Putting the entire mysql library into a namespace gives those that need it
the tools to segregate their code properly. And a simple "using namespace mysql;"
or similar will make it just like before.
With namespaces, you can have the best of both worlds: clear naming, without
making convoluted class names mandatory.
- Chris
