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In article <4crm6i$24mi@navajo.gate.net>, feathers@gate.net (Michael Feathers) writes:
> Todd Knarr (tknarr@xmission.com) wrote:
> : In <1996Jan7.045815.8676@ohstpy>, vancleef@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
> : 
> : >How often do you use NON-ZERO terminated strings??? HN is
> : >useless garbage in C++, or for ANSI C compilers.
> 
> Not so.  I use HN in C++ all the time.  It is excellent in the presence 
> of polymorphism.



Huh? How?

> 
> : That's the big downside to HN: it simply cannot be sensibly extended to
> : deal with an arbitrarily large number of types, and it goes completely
> : insane dealing with polymorphism. I doubt anyone could come up with a
> : reasonable HN prefix to accomodate a variable that can be one of 9
> : different types at any given time.
> 
> I've never seen a variable that can be any of 9 different types in C++.
> All variables have a type.  Period.  A type can be a union or a base 
> class, but all variables have one and only one type in C++.  If you don't
> believe me, check the ARM.
>