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In article <1992Nov11.004038.17772@microsoft.com>, jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock) writes:
> In article <1992Nov6.190320.1@vax1.bham.ac.uk> mccauleyba@vax1.bham.ac.uk (Brian McCauley) writes:
>>Why must be live with the anachonistic restictions on the use of array
>>variables?
> 
> I agree with your arguments, but some of the counterarguments are:
> 
> [2 very valid points]
>
> Since non-C-braindead-flavors of arrays can easily be implemented using
> templates, why invent a new slightly-less-braindead implementation of 
> arrays built-in to C++?  Instead, lobby the C++ libraries committee to
> put the arrays features you like into their proposed array class template.

OK C++ libraries committee - did you hear that.

BTW my objection to the handling of arrays was not that it would be useful
to allow array type to behave like any other type but that it was just plain
ugly to have a different set of rules for a subset of types.
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