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- From: Ray Toal <rtoal@eecs.lmu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 24 Feb 1996 10:25:28 GMT
- Organization: Loyola Marymount University
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- ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe) wrote:
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- >(4) C++ in particular has been changing very rapidly. It seems as if every
- > time I turn around there is a new keyword. I was looking at some code
- > fragments today in a book; they were full of things like
- > void HelpIndex () (RTMessage) = [CM_FIRST+CM_HelpIndex];
- > I've used three C++ compilers, read every book with "Stroustrup" on it,
- > and keep on browsing through the draft standard, and haven't the foggiest
- > notion what this is supposed to do.
-
- That line of code was not standard C++ (not that there even is a standard
- yet :-). It was a "syntax extension" that came with the Borland C++
- Compiler Version 3.x as part of the ObjectWindows Framework.
- Interestingly when Borland released 4.0 they removed that "syntax
- extension."
-
- I would be interested to know if any Ada vendors have released
- Ada compilers with vendor-specific syntax modifications.
-
- Ray Toal
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