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Dave O'Hearn Guest
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 10:35 am Post subject: Where do I put my using declarations? |
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Hopefully, everyone knows not to put using declarations in published
headers. I'm past the point of understanding that, and left wondering
.... so, where do I put them!
At present, I do it somewhat ad hoc. If I only use a name once or
twice, I may leave the std:: in front of it. If that's ugly or makes me
wrap lines, I'll do a "using std::lexigraphical_compare;", etc., at the
top of the function. If I'm using it an awful lot, I will put the using
declaration at the top of my module, after the #includes.
I have also considered creating a using_decls.h that does declarations
for the "big names" in std, as I presently have the declarations
duplicated about 40 times in 70 modules. Of course, this would be an
internal header, included after all other headers, and not published.
This is all very ad hoc, though. There are 2 or 3 legitimate places to
put a using declaration, one illegitimate place, and then the fallback
of typing std:: in front of the name. Is there any wisdom out there
about doing this with a bit more discipline?
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Ulrich Eckhardt Guest
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:08 pm Post subject: Re: Where do I put my using declarations? |
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Dave O'Hearn wrote:
| Quote: | Hopefully, everyone knows not to put using declarations in published
headers. I'm past the point of understanding that, and left wondering
... so, where do I put them!
At present, I do it somewhat ad hoc. If I only use a name once or
twice, I may leave the std:: in front of it. If that's ugly or makes me
wrap lines, I'll do a "using std::lexigraphical_compare;", etc., at the
top of the function. If I'm using it an awful lot, I will put the using
declaration at the top of my module, after the #includes.
I have also considered creating a using_decls.h that does declarations
for the "big names" in std, as I presently have the declarations
duplicated about 40 times in 70 modules. Of course, this would be an
internal header, included after all other headers, and not published.
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Rewrite the rule as "don't put using declarations into your interface
definitions", for the known reasons.
Typically, the interface definitions are in headers (*.hpp, *.h), but
sometimes these headers again #include definitions of inline functions or
are not part of the interface definition but rather part of the
implementation. In the former case the rule applies even to a non-header
file, in the latter (which resembles your private, common header) it
doesn't apply even though it is a header.
| Quote: | This is all very ad hoc, though. There are 2 or 3 legitimate places to
put a using declaration, one illegitimate place, and then the fallback
of typing std:: in front of the name. Is there any wisdom out there
about doing this with a bit more discipline?
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Apart from the technical aspects, it's a matter of taste. I personally type
the 'std::' so fast it doesn't even bother me at all. For other namespaces,
I sometimes use namespace aliases on a per-file or per-function base to
make code more readable/writable.
just my EUR 0.02
Uli
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dave_abrahams Guest
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:09 pm Post subject: Re: Where do I put my using declarations? |
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| Quote: | Hopefully, everyone knows not to put using declarations in published
headers. |
I don't know about that. Putting using-**directives** in published
headers **at global scope** is generally a bad idea. I put using
declarations in headers all the time, especially when it's intended to
be part of the header's public interface. In fact, I almost never use
"using" for notational convenience, so I always write "std::". The
only places I write "using" is when doing explicit namespace
composition and argument-dependent lookup enabling/prevention hackery,
e.g.:
using std::swap;
swap(a, b);
and
namespace me {
namespace isolate {
class some_class { ... };
}
using isolate::some_class; // prevent unintended ADL effects.
....
};
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Dave Harris Guest
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:09 pm Post subject: Re: Where do I put my using declarations? |
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[email]daveoh77 (AT) pobox (DOT) com[/email] (Dave O'Hearn) wrote (abridged):
| Quote: | At present, I do it somewhat ad hoc. If I only use a name once or
twice, I may leave the std:: in front of it. If that's ugly or makes me
wrap lines, I'll do a "using std::lexigraphical_compare;", etc., at the
top of the function. If I'm using it an awful lot, I will put the using
declaration at the top of my module, after the #includes.
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I'm the same. I'd add that most of the std names I use are types, and I
can often typedef them in the class header. Like:
#include <vector.h>
class MyInts {
typedef std::vector<int> Base;
typedef Base::iterator iterator;
typedef Base::const_iterator const_iterator;
Base m_base;
iterator begin() { return m_base.begin(); }
iterator end() { return m_base.end(); }
// ...
};
which leads to reasonable-looking code.
| Quote: | I have also considered creating a using_decls.h that does declarations
for the "big names" in std, as I presently have the declarations
duplicated about 40 times in 70 modules. Of course, this would be an
internal header, included after all other headers, and not published.
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I dislike that kind of thing, partly because it means code which compiles
in one module, won't compile when copied to another module if that module
doesn't have the header.
Also you will be #including a lot more code than you need. A colleague
adopted a similar approach to get around some problems with VC++6 (the
shipped std code generated stupid compiler warnings, so the header
disabled them, included the std headers, and then re-enabled the warnings
with a pragma). I found that replacing his single "std_includes.h" with
separate "std_vector.h" etc, made a significant difference to the compile
time.
-- Dave Harris, Nottingham, UK
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Bob Hairgrove Guest
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 5:59 pm Post subject: Re: Where do I put my using declarations? |
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On 28 Dec 2004 05:35:38 -0500, "Dave O'Hearn" <daveoh77 (AT) pobox (DOT) com>
wrote:
| Quote: | Hopefully, everyone knows not to put using declarations in published
headers. I'm past the point of understanding that, and left wondering
... so, where do I put them!
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Don't put them in ANY headers. You can probably put them at the top of
your .cpp file, but only AFTER all the #include lines. Otherwise, if
this is a problem (e.g. ambiguous names) then you will have to either
resolve the conflicting names by explicitly prefixing the name with
its namespace or else put the using declaration inside the function
body where the names are used.
| Quote: | At present, I do it somewhat ad hoc. If I only use a name once or
twice, I may leave the std:: in front of it. If that's ugly or makes me
wrap lines, I'll do a "using std::lexigraphical_compare;", etc., at the
top of the function. If I'm using it an awful lot, I will put the using
declaration at the top of my module, after the #includes.
I have also considered creating a using_decls.h that does declarations
for the "big names" in std, as I presently have the declarations
duplicated about 40 times in 70 modules. Of course, this would be an
internal header, included after all other headers, and not published.
This is all very ad hoc, though. There are 2 or 3 legitimate places to
put a using declaration, one illegitimate place, and then the fallback
of typing std:: in front of the name. Is there any wisdom out there
about doing this with a bit more discipline?
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How about typedefs?
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Dave Harris Guest
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 10:43 pm Post subject: Re: Where do I put my using declarations? |
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Ulrich Eckhardt Guest
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:09 pm Post subject: Re: Where do I put my using declarations? |
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 12:08 am Post subject: Re: Where do I put my using declarations? |
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Dave O'Hearn Guest
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 12:09 am Post subject: Re: Where do I put my using declarations? |
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Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 12:27 am Post subject: Re: Where do I put my using declarations? |
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