How can I “unuse” a namespace?

Question

One of the vagaries of my development system (Codegear C++Builder) is that some of the auto-generated headers insist on having...

using namespace xyzzy
         


        

Answer 1

You may be stuck using explicit namespaces on conflicts:

string x; // Doesn't work due to conflicting declarations
::string y; // use the class from the global namespace
std::string z; // use the string class from the std namespace