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Re: generalized lvalues

From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
To: Fariborz Jahanian <fjahanian at apple dot com>
Cc: Matt Austern <austern at apple dot com>,gcc mailing list <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:09:33 -0800
Subject: Re: generalized lvalues
References: <8AD5AEEF-3914-11D9-8BD2-000A95BCF344@apple.com> <880AA6A7-397D-11D9-A788-000A95BA54A6@apple.com>

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 08:18:50AM -0800, Fariborz Jahanian wrote:
> What was the rational to have this extension in the first place. Maybe 
> we sould dig this out before
> declaring that it was a 'bad idea'.

It's a C extension that is wrong for C++.

It interacts very badly with overloading.  There is no overloading in C.

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