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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!jimad
- From: jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock)
- Subject: Re: run-time type checking, freezing, and thawing
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.232215.13568@microsoft.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 23:22:15 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <2A827DFD.6D68@tct.com> <1992Aug10.191631.4133@microsoft.com> <WNZ5RGC@netmbx.netmbx.de>
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- In article <WNZ5RGC@netmbx.netmbx.de> jrobie@netmbx.netmbx.de (Jonathan Robie) writes:
- |We could take that even one step further, and grovel over debugging info
- |placed in the .EXEs. In fact, we could develop a general purpose library
- |for accessing this information. And we could standardize this for all
- |vendors. We have now rederived the concept of extended run time type
- |information....
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- Exactly. The advantage being that if you can figure out how to do the job
- without requiring keyword changes, then you can bypass the ANSI-C++
- committee, and just develop a libraries standard. Which can be decoupled
- from the C++ standardization effort.
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- For example, rather than having a "persistent" keyword, maybe you can just
- require that all persistent classes inherit from "Persistent." This way you
- can avoid introducing a keyword, and can avoid dealing with the committee.
-