Re: Reason for ::error calls?

[John W. Eaton]

On 08/05/2015 04:18 PM, rik wrote:
> 8/5/15
>
> jwe,
>
> I am seeing a lot of mixed calling conventions for the error function in
> libinterp.  Some of the time the function is called as '::error' and other
> times it is the bare word 'error'.  As an example, ov-fcn-handle.cc:85 uses
> '::error', but all other instances in the same file use just 'error'.
> Since the C++ files are using '#include "error.h"' they should be getting
> the prototypes they need.  Is there a reason not to simplify a lot of these
> instances by removing the '::' operator?

I think the reason for having ::error in member functions was that 
sometimes the class might have defined a member function with the name 
error (either directly or in a parent class).  If that's not the case 
for a class now, then I'd say go ahead and remove the "::".

jwe