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- From: maxtal@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (John MAX Skaller)
- Subject: Re: Give me safe C++
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.195609.26698@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:56:09 GMT
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- In article <724462415snx@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk writes:
- >
- >One of the drawbacks of C++ is that it is not always (often ?) clear
- >whether a particular line of code is doing something completely pure, or
- >is a nasty hack. My particular pet hate is the use of the same source code
- >construct for casts and conversions, but there are many other examples.
-
- Bjarne hates this too, and has a proposal to fix it.
- There will be a different syntax with long winded names for each
- type of cast. (If the proposal is accepted)
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