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Keith H Duggar · Guest

There is some previous discussion of this; but, I could not
find definitive and unanimous agreement and interpretation
of the standard.

namespace A {

class A::SomeClass { } ;

A::SomeClass A::some_func() ;
}

namespace A {

A::SomeClass A::some_func() { return A::SomeClass() ; }
}

Which of the redundant A:: qualifications above are legal?
Is section 8.3 of the standard relevant? What other sections
bear on this question?

On our system, g++ and the Sun compiler allow the above while
the Intel compiler gives the "qualified name not allowed in
namespace member declaration" error discussed here a few
years back.

Finally, is it legal to define some_func without wrapping in
namespace A { } as one does for class member functions?

A::SomeClass A::some_func() { return A::SomeClass() ; }

Thanks in advance!

-- Keith -- Fraud 6

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