C++ language lawyer question

[Nathan Sidwell]

Albert Chin wrote:
> In the process of compiling KDE 3.2 on IRIX 6.5 and Tru64 UNIX 5.1
> with the respective vendor C++ compilers, I ran into a namespace
> issue. Consider the following:
> 
> $ cat a.h
> class KMAcctImap;
> 
> namespace KIO {
>   class Job {
>   public:
>     int b;
>   };
> }
> 
> namespace KMail {
>   class ImapJob {
>     friend class KMAcctImap;
AFAICT [11.4]/9 indicates that this already means ::KMAcctImap,
You look for the name as normal, and then if not found inject
it into the innermost non-class scope (but in such a way that
regular name lookup won't find it until there's matching
declaration)

nathan

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