template inheritance from a class at different namespace

[daniel]

Hi,
I use g++ (GCC) 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-49)

Code1 returns these errors
   deleteme.cpp:33: `base' specified as declarator-id
   deleteme.cpp:33: two or more data types in declaration of `base'
   deleteme.cpp:33: prototype for `int test<Namer>::base()' does not 
match any in
      class `test<Namer>'
   deleteme.cpp:26: candidate is: void test<Namer>::base()
   deleteme.cpp:33: template definition of non-template `int 
test<Namer>::base()'

However, Code2 & Code3 work ok. Btw, Code1 works in MSVC++ 7.1
Is it as per design?

best regards

=Code1===============================
namespace spam {
   class base {};
}

   template<class Namer>
   class test
       : public spam::base
   {
   public:
       void base() ;
   };

   template<class Namer>
   void
   test<Namer>::base()
   {
       return NULL;
   }
int main(){}
=Code2===============================
namespace spam {
   class base {};
}

   class test
       : public spam::base
   {
   public:
       void base() ;
   };

   void
   test::base()
   {
   }
int main(){}

=Code3===============================
namespace spam {
   class base {};
}

   template<class Namer>
   class test
       : public spam::base
   {
   public:
       void base()  {}
   };

int main(){}

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