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  1. Path: airdmhor.gen.nz!not-for-mail
  2. From: gumboot@airdmhor.gen.nz (Simon Hosie)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c,comp.object,comp.software-eng
  4. Subject: Re: Beware of "C" Hackers -- A rebuttal to Bertrand Meyer
  5. Followup-To: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c,comp.object,comp.software-eng
  6. Date: 20 Mar 1996 07:08:27 +1200
  7. Organization: Airdmhor : a couple of BBS's, a bunch of people, and a cat.
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  13. hammond_g@drkclu.meng.ucl.ac.uk (G. Ruth Hammond) writes:
  14. > ~GuyRuthHammond () {}
  15.  
  16. falstaff@xs4all.nl (Falstaff) wrote:
  17. > Say, this .signature of yours tells me you won't listen to anybody (take
  18. > no inputs) and that you do nothing (empty block).
  19. > Is this something you really want people to know?
  20.  
  21. Will Flor:
  22. > No - that's his *destructor* - it says "that which works to destroy me takes no 
  23. > inputs and does nothing."  I think it's pretty clever.
  24.  
  25.   He's not hard to kill, then, is he?  I mean, one little fuction that does,
  26. like, _nothing_ and he's destructed.
  27.