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  2. From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
  4. Subject: Re: Destruction of temporaries
  5. Message-ID: <23583@alice.att.com>
  6. Date: 28 Aug 92 19:07:06 GMT
  7. References: <MCGRANT.92Aug26232410@rascals.stanford.edu> <23563@alice.att.com> <rmartin.715004480@thor>
  8. Reply-To: ark@alice.UUCP ()
  9. Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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  12. In article <rmartin.715004480@thor> rmartin@thor.Rational.COM (Bob Martin) writes:
  13.  
  14. > It is in these cases where I would be perfectly happy if the compiler
  15. > issued a warning, or even an error.
  16.  
  17. Which cases?  I don't know how to write a compiler smart enough to
  18. distinguish the innocent cases from the guilty ones.  Surely you're
  19. not suggesting a warning every time you call a function that returns
  20. a pointer!
  21. -- 
  22.                 --Andrew Koenig
  23.                   ark@europa.att.com
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