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Article #1730Re: STL operators != > <= >=
From: Joe Buck
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 17:19
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 17:19
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Distribution: maxtal@Physics.usyd.edu.au (John Max Skaller) writes: > The STL definitions were in fact quite wrong and >completely unnacceptable until overloading of function templates by >partial specialisation was introduced into the C++ language. > > Now the definitions in STL remain wrong, but they are >only defaults which can be overriden. Not true; you can't change the return type (so that, for example, < on two arrays of reals returns an array of bools as in APL). -- -- Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> (not speaking for Synopsys, Inc) Anagrams for "information superhighway": Enormous hairy pig with fan A rough whimper of insanity --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. Submission address: std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu. Contact address: std-c++-request@ncar.ucar.edu. The moderation policy is summarized in http://dogbert.lbl.gov/~matt/std-c++/policy.html. ]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!128.32.155.1!matt From: jbuck@Synopsys.COM (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: STL operators != > <= >= Date: 16 Aug 1995 17:19:30 GMT Organization: Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, CA 94043-4033 Approved: matt@physics2.Berkeley.EDU (Matt Austern) Message-ID: <MATT.95Aug16101930@physics2.Berkeley.EDU> References: <3vpmv5$4t7@mujibur.inmind.com> <3vutg6$713@mujibur.inmind.com> <408o8u$c0p@hermes.synopsys.com> <MATT.95Aug14092229@physics10.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: physics2.berkeley.edu