Re: UN-using a namespace?
Dave Calkins <david.calkins@noemail.noemail> wrote:
I'm familiar with the "using namespace" to expose the members of a
namespace to the global namespace. Is there a way to UN-use a
namespace?
We're calling a third party library which, in its headers has "using
namespace" for its own namespace. This ends up polluting the global
namespace and causing conflicts in our code. For example, the library
defines a CPoint class which, of course conflicts with the MFC CPoint
class.
So, I'd like to unuse the namespace after including the third party
library header files to avoid the problem.
I don't believe you can do that. The easiest workaround would probably
involve hand-editing these library headers and removing the offending
using directives, or at least surrounding them with #ifdef/#endif so you
can turn them on and off.
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With best wishes,
Igor Tandetnik
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