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RE: Converting GCC to compilation with C++
- From: "Gabriel Dos Reis" <gdr at acm dot org>
- To: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- Cc: gdr at acm dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 19:05:00 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: RE: Converting GCC to compilation with C++
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- Reply-to: gdr at acm dot org
Dave Korn:
>> -----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.
Thanks for the clarifications.
-- Gaby