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Re: generalized lvalues


On 18 Nov 2004, at 10.09, Joe Buck wrote:

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.

Of course, since we are discussing a language extension, _we_ get to decide how it interacts with C++ overloading.
For the same reason, Matt's assertion that the feature "breaks valid C++ programs" is inherently contradictory,
since programs containing it cannot be valid. :-)

--Zem

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