------- Comment #7 from bangerth at dealii dot org 2006-03-08 17:21 ------- (In reply to comment #6) > I'm considering filing a defect report (for a standard clarification) to the > commitee but I would like to make sure I'm not climbing any trees here... In > your first reply you said "My understanding is that this code is in fact > invalid...", which part of the C++ standard did you base this on?
I don't have the time to look that up right now, but you should look this up in the "name lookup" section. It should say that there is an ambiguity if a matching name is found in two namespaces. Note that a namespace a=b; declaration introduces a new namespace. W. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26448
