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- From: "Nathan Myers, http://www.cantrip.org/" <ncm@cantrip.org>
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- Subject: Re: What's new
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 18:43:13 GMT
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- Warwick Slade (wslade@atlanta.com) wrote:
-
- > With all the changes being made to the C++ standard it is difficult
- > for the run of the mill C++ programmer to keep up.
- >
- > Is there a brief summary of the major features added since
- > Templates/Exceptions were added.
-
- As you wish: http://uptown.turnpike.net/~scorf/cplusext.html
-
- Note that templates and exceptions have each bred several
- refinements, resulting in a language far, far more powerful
- than that described in the ARM. (Member templates, partial
- specialization, and function template overloading are the
- key refinements.)
-
- > What would be ideal would be a list of the new features with a
- > cross reference to the version when each of the major compiler
- > vendors implemented that feature. (This user is mainly interested
- > in PC based compilers).
-
- Most of the interesting features haven't yet been implemented
- in commercially available compilers. Still, a checklist sounds
- like a good idea for somebody's web page.
-
- Nathan Myers
- ncm@cantrip.org http://www.cantrip.org/
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