------- Comment #7 from starlight at binnacle dot cx 2008-05-11 02:42 ------- That little bit of ambiguity bothers me a lot less that writing 55,000 freaking 'using' statements, which is what I've had to do for several years now.
In the real world nobody except idiots name their functions 'f', so it doesn't arise as a practical problem. To the extent it does, writing an occasional ::f() and B::f() are much less of a problem than the hundreds of stupid 'using' statements I've had to write ever since GCC 3.4. The resulting code is much harder to maintain as every time I add some logic I then have spend 30 minutes or an hour chasing down more 'using's. The theoretical side of the issue makes no impression on people who work for living. Have a switch option for masochists who give a s**t. Let me be perfectly clear: Thousands of lines of code worked perfectly fine before this slavish standard nonsense. All that's changed is that people like me who used to like templates like them a lot less now. M4 looks better every day. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36203
