a quick about namespaces

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 23, 2002, Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk> wrote:

>    throw new java::lang::IllegalStateException ( ... );

> but the code generated by current gcjh does this:

>    throw new ::java::lang::IllegalStateException ( ... );


> Is this significant? Is there something here that I have to
> understand?

What if your package had a sub-package named java?  The initial `::'
tells g++ to start from the global namespace, so that it will never
start from the current namespace.

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