TITLE: Types, variables, and name spaces

PROBLEM: nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk (Nikki Locke)

Is the following C++ code legal, or not ?

typedef unsigned color;

class ColoredButton {
	ColoredButton(color &color);
	};


RESPONSE: steve@taumet.com (Steve Clamage), 8 Oct 92
	  Vice Chair, ANSI C++ Committee, X3J16


I think this fragment is legal, but you will not have access to the
type name 'color' inside the constructor.  The ARM explictly lists (p 106)

	typedef long I;
	int I;

as illegal, because the two "I" declarators are in the same scope;
typedef names and variable names are in the same name space.  In this
example, the parameter name 'color' is in a new scope.

In any event, it is certainly poor programming practice.