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- From: jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock)
- Subject: Re: How do I... (regarding overloading)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.193701.6815@microsoft.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 19:37:01 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Jul21.232959.13540@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Jul23.012111.16784@microsoft.com> <1992Jul23.154922.26676@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul23.154922.26676@sunb10.cs.uiuc.edu> pjl@sparc11.cs.uiuc.edu (Paul Lucas) writes:
- | Why do they want to do that? If I want to call functions on
- | temporaries, that's my business (and I accept any consequences).
- | I think that compiler warnings are sufficient.
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- Remember, if you say that warning are sufficient, then you are also saying
- that not having warnings is sufficient, because warning represent a compiler
- implementation, not a language specification. Errors are part of the language,
- warnings are implementation specific.
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- Why would they not allow functions on temporaries? Beats me, but someone
- is proposing this. I don't know the details. Perhaps it relates to all
- the committee discussions about trying to invent special case rules for
- handling the lifetimes of temporaries? As opposed to handling the lifetimes
- of temporaries just like all other objects?
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