I really wonder who is that genius from API team who decided that a namespace with the name "main" is a great fucking idea...

Because of this shit I've had to resort to hacky pImpl implementation of the API.

it's like someone didn't know what main() is, or does and decided to roll their own dice instead. 😦

I can't decide which is worse.

Jesus fucking Christ. What an absolute dong-head thought this would be a good idea?!?

Why not just rename the namespace ?

Wait c++ will consider namespaces and variables and functions in the same scope ???
That makes no sense !

@MadMadMadMrMim external API. I have no power over it

@iiii well that sucks.

@MadMadMadMrMim it sucks indeed.

Wow. Just wow. I have now tried several attempts to resolve this in a little test file. There is really no way around isolating off the main function into its own module to avoid the name clash. Whoever did this is either a complete idiot... or a real badass C++ troll.

@iiii in .net namespaces and classes don’t exist in the same scope that way

Rename it to master 😂

@DirtEffect yes, you can only isolate the submodule that uses that API.