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Article #3150Re: Give operator. a chance
From: Steve Clamage
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 19:14
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 19:14
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In article 8676@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU, fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) writes: >In article <3102AD11.1663@et.se>, >Dan Holmsand <dan@et.se> asks >dan> Is operator.() banned from the standards discussion? >and in article <DLost8.H9B@research.att.com>, >ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig) replies >ark> Yes. >but in article <4e0nc3$4dp@engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM>, >clamage@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Clamage) writes: >clamage> No, it is not banned, [...] >So who's right, the editor or the chairman? ;-) Both. :-) De jure, not banned. De facto, nobody wants to talk about it anymore. If someone brought it up in the C++ Committee, he or she would probably be carried out bodily. (As Chair, I would publicly deplore the impropriety of physical assault, but only if I happened to notice that it occurred.) --- Steve Clamage, stephen.clamage@eng.sun.com [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. Submission address: std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu. Contact address: std-c++-request@ncar.ucar.edu. The moderation policy is summarized in http://dogbert.lbl.gov/~matt/std-c++/policy.html. ]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM!taumet!clamage From: clamage@Eng.sun.com (Steve Clamage) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Give operator. a chance Date: 25 Jan 1996 19:14:54 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. Approved: clamage@eng.sun.com (comp.std.c++) Message-ID: <4e8jkb$p6o@engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM> References: <9602518.8676@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Reply-To: clamage@Eng.sun.com NNTP-Posting-Host: taumet.eng.sun.com Content-Type: text X-Nntp-Posting-Host: taumet.eng.sun.com Content-Length: 855 X-Lines: 29 Originator: clamage@taumet