fully-qualified-naming

What is the fully qualified name of a friend function defined inside of a class?

June 3, 2023 by Tarik

Is argument-dependent lookup the only way val() can be found? Yes, it is the only way. To quote the holy standard at [namespace.memdef]/3: If a friend declaration in a non-local class first declares a class, function, class template or function template the friend is a member of the innermost enclosing namespace. The friend declaration does … Read more

Regular expression matching fully qualified class names

May 26, 2023 by Tarik

A Java fully qualified class name (lets say “N”) has the structure N.N.N.N The “N” part must be a Java identifier. Java identifiers cannot start with a number, but after the initial character they may use any combination of letters and digits, underscores or dollar signs: ([a-zA-Z_$][a-zA-Z\d_$]*\.)*[a-zA-Z_$][a-zA-Z\d_$]* ———————— ———————– N N They can also not … Read more