Re: How can I use namespaces with the C++ interface ?

[Hans Aberg]

On 22 Jun 2012, at 19:42, Timothy Madden wrote:

> How could I use a namespace like yy (the same way bison does) for the 
> generated scanner with the C++ interface ?
> 
> I tried to open "namespace yy {" at the %top of the file, and to close it "}" 
> at the bottom, but all the included standard headers in the generated scanner 
> would be included in the namespace yy this way, instead of the expected 
> global namespace.
> 
> I had no other idea than to explicitly include the C/C++ standard headers 
> used by the scanner before I open the yy namespaces, at the top of the file, 
> so that when the scanner later includes them, they will each see they have 
> been already included and skip over any included content.
> 
> Can namespaces please be added to flex C++ interface ?

Flex does not currently have active developers, and the C++ lexer was written a 
long time ago, before namespaces was a part of C++. You might try modifying the 
skeleton file, though.

Hans