[omniORB] IDL name clashes]

[Michi Henning]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Matthias Klein wrote:

> Hi Richard,
> 
> quoting from Henning/Vinoski, Chapter 4.18.3:
> 
> "A name in a nested scope cannot be the same as a name in its immediate
> enclosing scope". Their example:
> 
> module CCS {
> ....
>     module CCS {
>    }
> }
> 
> won't compile. So i think omniidl is right

Yes. We added this restriction to IDL because to permit same-named constructs
to be nested directly inside each other creates problems in C++ and Java:
the nested thing will be mistaken as the constructor if the enclosing thing
is a class.

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