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Re: c++ "with" keyword
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: gmariani at chaincast dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 12:35:36 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: c++ "with" keyword
> Someone innocently added a new member and completly changed the
> behaviour of the code. For code maintainability, I'd suggest that this
> would cause more difficult to discover problems than would be merited.
This is a red herring. Any reasonable definition of the with feature would
make it impossible for the addition of a member name to change the meaning
of existing code (yes, it might make it illegal, but that's reaosnable).