[C++-sig] Re: Problems with Pyste from CVS.

[Nicodemus]

David Abrahams wrote:

>Nicodemus <nicodemus at globalite.com.br> writes:
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>>David Abrahams wrote:
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>>>Names containing double underscores or starting with an underscore
>>>followed by a capital letter are reserved to the C++ implementation,
>>>so they can't conflict with anything the user might legally define as
>>>a class member.
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>>Thanks for the suggestion Dave!
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>>But "void _Foo(int) {}" compiles fine with intel 7.1.0.
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>>I am not saying that you are wrong, but apparently some code with an
>>underscore followed by a capital letter compiles fine depending on the
>>compiler. 
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>Almost any compiler will compile that without complaint.  The
>standard library has to compiles *somehow* ;-)
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>>So I assume that there is code that uses invalid names, even thought
>>the specification says otherwise...
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>Sure, but we can only be expected to work reliably on correct code.
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Yeah, seems good enough. 8)
Thanks again for the suggestion.

Regards,
Nicodemus.