oh no - not anonymous namespaces again ...

[Gianni Mariani <gmariani at chaincast dot com>]

I have done some more research and I've come to a hypothesis that
internal linkage is the right solution for anonymous namespaces.

It turns out that the discussion between Jason and  Martin in 1998
(see  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/1998-08/msg00352.html) was
limited because of the unfamiliarity of how to implement export.

Since gcc has yet to implement export *and*  it seems that to implement
export and templates, you're going to need to change the whole way
linking works anyway, the the argument - you need globals for export,
is just not relevant.

Reconsideration of the anonymoys namespace patch found in
   http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/1998-08/msg00291.html
is needed.

Background:
Since the "static" global symbol is deprecated, there is no way for gcc
to guarentee conflict free linking.  This seems to be a significant 
regression
from C.  static also has some limitations that are resolved by the use of
anonymous namespaces, concluding that the best solution is to ``fix''
anonymous namespaces to elimiate the possibility of linker conflicts.