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In article <9220614.4939@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> fjh@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON) writes:
>
>The more I think about this the more I like it.
>In fact I would say that is is *better* than just allowing
>	r.invalidate_cache();
>since you *want* meta-operations to stand out as being semantically different
>to standard operations. This method allows you to clearly seperate the two.
>Also in general you might want to control access to meta-operations, and
>having this seperation also makes that easier.
>
>-- 
>Fergus Henderson             fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU      
>This .signature VIRUS is a self-referential statement that is true - but 
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No, I don't want meta-operations to stand out.  I want to be able to design
interfaces in which construction, copying, destruction, conversion all happen
silently and automatically where the interface designs them to.  The same
would apply to operator. if it were allowed to be overloaded.

David Cok
Eastman Kodak
cok@Kodak.COM