Re: Symbol tables and scopes

Alex Colvin wrote:
> My experience is that a typical C++ program consists almost entirely
> of names with global scope. Note that this includes types, constants,
> members, etc. Pretty much everything in a header file.
>
> I almost never see #include... anywhere but a top-level scope. And my
> experience with C++ is that most of the program moves into the header
> file.


Just because the #include statements are in what you might think of as
a global/top level scope section does not mean that the symbols that the
statement brings in are global. In C++ most everything is supposed to
be in the namespace std. I believe this is what was being referred to,
and why the global namespace of a WELL WRITTEN C++ program would be
fairly empty. This is often not the case because of all the C included
and because WELL WRITTEN isn't all that common.


Nathan

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