Kresimir Fresl <fresl@master.grad.hr> writes:
David Abrahams wrote:
Kresimir Fresl <fresl@master.grad.hr> writes:
David Abrahams wrote: [...]
These are not C++ identifiers; they're names.
David.Abrahams [...]
His question was analogous to asking why we don't write david::abrahams.
No -- as far as I know, we write neither david::abrahams nor David.Abrahams.
Fair enough; he asked "why do we use a dot?" and "why don't we use scope resolution and lowercase?" The second question is the analogous one. I don't have an answer for the first one (or a position on whether dotting is good), other than -- as I wrote in my original message -- that there's historical precedent. That question was already answered as well as I know how, and when you "couldn't resist" -- which, BTW, I didn't appreciate -- I only tried to explain the reasons that the scope resolution operator and lowercase was inappropriate. not-justifying-the-dot-ly y'rs, -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com