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Re: Unary +?

On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Paul Derbyshire wrote:

> I just noticed this operator in C++. What the hell's it good for? It looks
> like a no-op. I suppose someone can overload it to do something other than
> ano-op, but that would be rather non-intuitive I'd think... obfuscated
> operator overloading is to be avoided, unless someone has started an
> Obfuscated C++ Contest and you're entering something in it.

	How this relates to egcs, I dunno, but I'd
	imagine it's there for symetry with unary -.

	Take it up with the committee.

		-B