Re: New PowerPoint Indexer

From:
"Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:05:05 -0700
Message-ID:
<uebZySYGIHA.936@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>
When MFC was introduced, their C++ compiler didn't support namespaces. ATL,
on the other hand, is enclosed to a namespace.

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
news:ne49i394j7tbgplosntolg1vdcnb0o58gl@4ax.com...

I agree. But I decided that I would use the names given by Microsoft. I
find it odd that
they chose *not* to use namespace for these classes; it would make things
read a lot
nicer.
joe

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:27:22 +0100, "Giovanni Dicanio"
<giovanni.dicanio@invalid.it>
wrote:

"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanni.dicanio@invalid.it> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:uStc3eOGIHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

I think the explanation is the same you wrote for CView0, i.e. to avoid
name conflicts. For example, there is class CTable in OLE DB, and so the
wizard disambiguates the class created from type library calling it
CTable0


BTW: I was thinking that in this case using namespaces like
PowerPoint::CView or PowerPoint::CTable would be better than the class
name
ending with 0.

Giovanni


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