gratuitous new features in 2.0

[Steven E. Harris]

Roy Katz <katz at Glue.umd.edu> writes:

[...]

> That last point is what especially concerns me.  C++ is full of these
> one-context throw-away grammatical oddities such as 'unsigned short
> BIT_FIELD_NAME:   N' (the colon) and 'using namespace ...' (could you
> *ever* put anything other than 'namespace' in the 'using'
> declaration??) 

Yes. You're describing a "using Directive," but are forgetting about
the arguably more useful "using Declaration."

I can post a descriptive example if you're interested.

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