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- From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON)
- Subject: Re: pointer comparisons
- Message-ID: <9300812.4314@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:16:39 GMT
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- jss@lucid.com (Jerry Schwarz) writes:
-
- >I'm not going to propose any exact wording here or address the question
- >of whether words already exist in the ARM because any attempt would
- >drop me into the terminological tar pit. But I will say that I don't
- >think those words should make a distinction between X's that have or
- >don't have data members, or virtuals, or pure virtuals or anything
- >else.
-
- I would tend to agree. But I think that it might very well be appropriate
- for the commentary to contain something like
-
- - Note that the above wording implies that if a class has any data
- members, then ... (some guarantee about pointer comparisons).
-
- In other words, requirements for data members (or such-like) could be implicit
- rather than explicit in the ARM.
-
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- Fergus Henderson fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU
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