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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!jimad
- From: jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock)
- Subject: Re: The fate of my exponentiation operator proposal
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.185914.664@microsoft.com>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 18:59:14 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec5.063533.1787@frumious.uucp> <1992Dec07.195917.14566@microsoft.com> <BzCFyM.2r5@frumious.uucp>
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- In article <BzCFyM.2r5@frumious.uucp> pat@frumious.uucp (Patrick Smith) writes:
- |It would be nice to be able to use these words in C++ programs
- |without having to worry about future versions of the standard,
- |even if only in some contexts (eg. as member function names).
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- Verses it would be nice to be able to port C code to C++ without having
- to rewrite the whole da*ned thing. My concern is that I am seeing people
- *trying* to port C to C++ and having a hellish time of it. I'd like to
- think that most of the time C code would compile under C++ with no
- changes. This is not what I'm seeing though. Further, the proposed
- changes take away the ability to selectively decide whether a std library
- should be implemented in one's code via a function call, or an inline
- [albeit macro] expansion, without giving programmers an equivalent functionality
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