Re: stop adding keywords to C++

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From: mfinney
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 09:04

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In <49vplf$mvs@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>, clamage@Eng.sun.com (Steve Clamage) writes:

>The other reason is that no user definition of a boolean type can
>type. For example:

This is one of the biggest problems with C/C++.  Since typedef is
"transparent" you can't overload on it.  If C/C++ had a "type" which
is identical to "typedef" except that the type defined is opaque so
that overloading is possible then programming could be simplified in
many cases.  And would have made the bool type unnecessary because
it COULD have been defined in the language with that extension.

Michael Lee Finney

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Subject: Re: stop adding keywords to C++
Date: 05 Dec 1995 09:04:29 GMT
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