Re: namespace issues with old C headers

[Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 09:11:30AM -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 09:57:52AM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> > Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com> writes:
> > 
> > | On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 08:47:21PM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> > | > The standard isn't silent: It explicitly says that a standard header
> > | > can include another standard header.
> > | 
> > | And this leads to accidental portability problems. 
> > 
> > Yes, and the following is *known* not to be portable: 
> > 
> >   #include <iostream>
> >   
> >    int main()
> >    {
> >       std::cout << "Hello World\n";
> >    }
> > 
> > No need of assert() to demonstrate the problem.
> 
> Sigh.  If you wish to pedantically dismiss something that has been a
> huge productivity problem, fine.  (any real program is going to
> use its arguments, so dinging me for not including them in a quickly
> typed example is just bogus).

I apologize for the parenthetical remark: your example is not taken from
what I wrote.  Still, the dropping-the-arguments portability bug only
affects short programs.