C++ namespaces

[John W. Eaton]

On  5-Nov-2008, Søren Hauberg wrote:

| ons, 05 11 2008 kl. 11:41 -0800, skrev Kyle Altendorf:
| > I found talk of namespaces on the archives, but there don't yet seem
| > to be any in regards to C++ access to Octave classes.  Am I missing
| > something?  Specifically, I am dealing with code which already has a
| > Matrix class and I was hoping not to have to change that just to use
| > the Octave Matrix class.  Long term I would hope to have Octave
| > replace the other (partial) library, but in the mean time I need to
| > access both.
| > 
| > Thanks for any pointers,
| 
| Will something like
| 
| namespace octave {
| #include <octave/oct.h>
| };
| 
| work for you? I'm no C++ expert, so I'm not sure of this will have
| unwanted side-effects.

I don't think this will work because the Octave libraries would still
be compiled without the namespace tag so linking would fail.

jwe