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  2. From: Michael Cook <mcook@cognex.com>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
  4. Subject: Re: typedef not strong
  5. Date: 18 Feb 1996 21:46:16 GMT
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  18. >>>>> "RP" == Robert Payne <rpayne@rainbow.rmii.com> writes:
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  20.  RP> Why has C++ stayed with the weak typedef?  It has always seemed to
  21.  RP> me that it should provide a new type and not just a synomym.
  22.  
  23. C++ /has/ a mechanism for creating new types: `class'.
  24. `typedef' is just a fancy `#define'--and I think it's clear from K&R that
  25. that's all it was intended to be.
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