Re: Using nested namespaces

From:

Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.c++

Date:

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 01:28:39 -0500

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Jaco Naude <naude.jaco@gmail.com> wrote in news:19101368-0be4-4848-84fd-
201e4c16ba51@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com:

Hi

I'm using a top level namespace for a project. The project has a few
libraries which each have their own namespace. Each library has some
constants and interfaces defined under seperate namespaces as well.

For examples, for two different libraries the following namespaces are
present

ProjectNamespace::Library1
ProjectNamespace::Library1::Constants
ProjectNamespace::Library1::Interfaces
ProjectNamespace::Library2
ProjectNamespace::Library2::Constants
ProjectNamespace::Library2::Interfaces

I'm looking for for a way to include all the namespaces in a library
in one go, thus rather than adding the following:

using namespace ProjectNamespace::Library1;
using namespace ProjectNamespace::Library1::Constants;
using namespace ProjectNamespace::Library1::Interfaces;

I want to do the above in one line. Is that possible?

In the Library1 main header you can add this in the end:

namespace ChunkedLibrary1 {
     using namespace ProjectNamespace::Library1;
     using namespace ProjectNamespace::Library1::Constants;
     using namespace ProjectNamespace::Library1::Interfaces;
}

Then in the needed source files you can use:

using namespace ChunkedLibrary1;

Alternatively, one could consider of using some short prefix instead of
the using directive:

namespace lib1 = ChunkedLibrary1;
lib1::foo();

hth
Paavo

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