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  2. From: dag@net.dynasim.se (Dag Bruck)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
  4. Subject: Re: typedef not strong
  5. Date: 23 Feb 1996 15:55:17 GMT
  6. Organization: Dynasim AB, Lund, Sweden
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  8. Approved: clamage@eng.sun.com (comp.std.c++)
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  18.  
  19. In article <4g62li$kuh@engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM>,
  20. Steve Clamage <clamage@Eng.Sun.COM> wrote:
  21. >rpayne@rainbow.rmii.com (Robert Payne) writes:
  22. >
  23. >>Why has C++ stayed with the weak typedef?  It has always seemed to
  24. >>me that it should provide a new type and not just a synomym.
  25. >
  26. >I don't remember that issue ever being brought up in the C++
  27. >committee.
  28.  
  29. The final comment of the Swedish Committee Draft Ballot response was
  30. a recommendation to look closer at this issue in the next round of
  31. standardization.  The suggested syntax was
  32.  
  33.     explicit typedef int length;
  34.  
  35. Note the use of keyword explicit to distinguish it from the current
  36. typedef.
  37.  
  38. Dag Bruck
  39. Swedish Head of Delegation, ISO SC22/WG21
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