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- From: mark@whizbang.wariat.org (Mark W. Schumann)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: named loops
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- References: <1992Aug24.161012.2835@taumet.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 16:47:34 GMT
- Organization: The Software Sweatshop, Cleveland, Ohio USA
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- In article <1992Aug24.161012.2835@taumet.com> steve@taumet.com writes:
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- !As Bjarne Stroustrup has pointed out many times, there are lots of
- !proposals for lots of nice features to be added to C++. Any one
- !feature considered alone might be easy to implement, break no existing
- !code, and provide some convenience for some number of programmers.
- !If all such were adopted, the language would become so complicated
- !that the language and its compilers would collapse under their own
- !own weight. (Some might say this has already happened :-) .)
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- "What he said."
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- When I made the jump to C++ it was with the understanding that C++
- would be C with some object-oriented features added. I did not
- anticipate it becoming a mishmash of everyone's pet features.
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- Please, Steve, help keep it simple.
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