[Bug c++/21764] visibility attributes on namespace scope

[jason at redhat dot com]

------- Comment #8 from jason at redhat dot com  2005-11-18 06:15 -------
Subject: Re:  visibility attributes on namespace scope

bkoz at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:
> What do you mean, "less or equal visibility to their enclosing scope?"

Where default > protected > hidden > internal, if a class or namespace 
has a specified visibility, nested scopes should have the same 
visibility or something later in the above sequence.

> My meta-goal is to try and give namespace and class scope visibilty attributes
> similar meanings. Do you think this is worthwhile, possible, and do you think
> this is a good idea?

Yes, guess I should have said that before nitpicking the examples.

> Yeah, maybe default namespace with hidden nested makes more sense for the
> examples. However, wouldn't both have to be supported, anyway? 

Both would be supported by the simplest implementation, though we could 
enforce rules like the above if we wanted to.  Mostly I was just puzzled 
that the examples in both PRs seemed inside out, and wondered if I was 
missing some compelling use case.

Jason


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