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RE: Converting GCC to compilation with C++
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: <gdr at acm dot org>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:52:35 +0100
- Subject: RE: Converting GCC to compilation with C++
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gabriel Dos Reis
> Sent: 13 July 2004 13:01
> Dave Korn:
> > reservations
>> if we started to go bananas with tangled and multiple
> > inheritance hierarchies, templates, inanely overloaded
> operators, and all
> > the more obfuscatory features of the C++ language, iii) but
> that I'd not
>
> The misconceptions here are, as expected,
>
> (1) the features, themselves are obfuscatory, not
> their misuses;
>
> (2) just because there is a feature means it should be used.
>
> Templates, overloading and multiple inheritance work for me and
> all other programmers I know of or have met.
>
> -- Gaby
The phrase '*if* ... go bananas with' was intended to address just those
points, as were adjectives such as 'tangled' and 'inanely'. My concern is
that we would have to be continually on guard against the temptation to
engage in overly-clever uses that would make things worse in the long term.
cheers,
DaveK
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