using s specific namespace in all class members, using directive in class header

Hi everyone, I have some memory that it was possible to write something like this:

Code:

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class MySpecialClass
{
public:
    using namespace boost;
};

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And then was boost namespace visible in all member functions of that class, but of course have I forget exactly how to write it. What is the right syntax to accomplish this? I have been started to get tired of written using directive in every member function :(

Thanks in advance.

Perhaps you are thinking of using that using directive at global scope, after all the includes, in the source file containing the definitions of the various member functions of MySpecialClass.

Yes, that will work, but it feels wrong and with that memory in my head is it very annoying. I haven't sleep this night either so it can be it too, but if you don't know so are it probably impossible.

Thanks anyway.

Unfortunately it seems to me that you can't use using declarations at class scope.

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Originally Posted by anon

Unfortunately it seems to me that you can't use using declarations at class scope.

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You can, and that would be appropriate to bring in names from a base class that would be hidden otherwise.

Perhaps I meant using directives then - can't remember which is which. It seems to me that you can't put "using namespace boost;" where the OP wants to put it.

It is not possible to use "using namespace" directives in a class definition.

However, there are other forms of "using" directives that are used (no pun intended) within classes.