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In article <ksand-011292181712@wintermute.apple.com> Kent Sandvik,
> ksand@apple.com writes:
> >That is the case, and we presented the compiler at this year's
> >WWDC conference. I can't say 100% about the feature set, because
> >it depends on what we and Lucid provides to the final product. However
> >I'm optimistic about templates, less about exception handling.
> 

Um ... before you write off a Cfront 3.0 stopgap, remember that

a) the definition of exception handling has only just settled down, and
   will probably unsettle again as soon as there's an implementation to
   find problems with (and Cfront 3.0 does NOT have exceptions; that's
   for Cfront 4.0, so that's not a differentiating factor)

b) The definition of templates is in the process of changing (i.e. the
   ANSI standards committee has started to discuss modifying the current
   definition in the working document, which is what's in 3.0 and any
   other existing implementations).  Granted. Lucid has good
   representation on the committee (take a bow, Jerry), but there's sure
   to be some concern about the tradeoff between schedules and waiting
   for the consensus of the committee.
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