Question

I have this following scenario

    namespace A {
    //...
    class A {
        public:
        static void foo();
    }
    //...
    } //namespace A

When I try to access foo() from another class with A::foo() the compiler complains about “foo is not a member of A” and when I try to use A::A::foo() it complains about unresolved external.

How can I solve this? I think making a class inside the the same namespace is pretty stupid and leads to confusion but I’m not the author of the code and changing the namespace or the class name would cause too much trouble

Answer 1

you can use :: to get to the top of the namespace hierarchy. So your class is ::A::A

edit: above answers your main question about namespaces. But as others pointed out, your problem is that you did not define foo. Add

inline void A::A::foo() { };