From: Warren Young
Date: October 22 2004 3:26am
Subject: Re: using namespace?
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Chris Frey wrote:
> 
> Well, tossing my peanuts into the ring, 

As a patch contributor, you're definitely not in the peanut gallery.  :)

> "using namespace mysql;"

mysqlpp?

> With namespaces, you can have the best of both worlds: clear naming, without
> making convoluted class names mandatory.

While this doesn't solve the original poster's problem, I suppose it 
would help mitigate some of the problems of nuking define_short.hh.