Question

Functions.h

#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <limits>
#include <stdexcept>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include "definitions.h"
#include "globals.h"

};using namespace std;

This is in functions.h Now we have main.cpp that includes the header

Main.cpp

#include "functions.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    //Other stuff
    return 0;
}

For some reason I have to write }; before the using statement. It won’t let me compile unless that is before it.

Any ideas as to why?

Answer 1

This error is probably caused by a missing }; in the globals.h file.

The preprocessor literally pastes the contents of the #included header files into your source file. So if there is a syntax error in one of the header files, there will be a syntax error in the source file that includes it.

And I know this doesn’t fix your problem, but you should never use using namespace std; in a header file, as that pollutes the global namespace for every translation unit that includes that header. It’s much better to keep using namespace statements local to a single source file, or better yet, just type out std::.