Dear Erik, May I suggest you try comp.lang.c++ forum, below is the URL: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF -8&group=comp.lang.c%2B%2B This forum is more boost specific and I think you may have a better response posting into comp.lang.c++ Best regards, Mauricio Gomes On Aug 5, 2004, at 10:27 AM, Erik Thiele wrote:

hi

i don't find any docs about that issue, so i ask it here:

the usual approach to work with templates and separated interface and implementation is as follows (i hope):

x.hpp:

template<class a> void foo(std::string xxx); #include "x_impl.hpp"

x_impl.hpp:

template<class a> void foo(std::string xxx) { string bla = xxx + "sdjkfh"; // <-- no std:: here !!!! cout << bla; }

usually in normal non-template coding style i can do

using namespace std;

on the top of each .cpp file. but now i cannot do it, because it is actually in a header file and i don't want to include another namespace in the interface definition.

how can i solve the problem? i don't want to write "using namespace std" at the beginning of every template function declaration, but only once per implementation file.

cu & thx erik

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