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Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 22:21:51 GMT
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On Fri, 03 Mar 2000 11:22:15 -0500, "Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]"
<moscoop AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com> wrote:

>Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:
>
>> Damian Yerrick wrote
>
>> > C++ can do operator overloading, which converts
>> > farpokel() into an array access.
>
>Although you could make a 'FarArray' class which changed
>array accessing into 'farpoke*' calls.

Sorry, I was unclear.
Anyone care to write a FarArray class based on templates (hee hee
hee)?

>> What about the poor guys (a lot of people BTW, just see
>> how much of the source out there is C) who program in C.

I program in C too.

>> BTW I love C++ but sometimes I get the feeling when I read
>> statements like the above that it is more a toolkit which you
>> can use to "patch up" various problematic designs rather than
>> a programming language.
>
>What do you mean by a toolkit for patching designs?

I think Kalum means that C++ can be used to create wrappers for
libraries whose interfaces suck.

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