Re: ‘ERROR’ was not declared in this scope

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 15:20 +0100, Paul Eggert wrote:
> /usr/include/gdkmm-3.0/gdkmm/types.h|35|error: ‘ERROR’ was not
> declared in this scope|
>
> You declared a macro named ERROR.

No, we didn't. That file works around MS Windows declaring a macro named
ERROR, which interferes, for instance, with our enum values named ERROR.

>  Any user could do that. You must not do that.
> Why...? 
>
> You MUST NOT DO THAT! ;-)

Please try to be nicer.

>  (I wanted to do that... :'-( )
[snip]

That is not wise for you to do, or for MS Windows to do. You should try
to prefix your API with a namespace name to avoid such problems.


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