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Re: generalized lvalues

From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
To: Ziemowit Laski <zlaski at apple dot com>
Cc: Matt Austern <austern at apple dot com>,Fariborz Jahanian <fjahanian at apple dot com>,gcc mailing list <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:40:22 -0800
Subject: Re: generalized lvalues
References: <8AD5AEEF-3914-11D9-8BD2-000A95BCF344@apple.com> <880AA6A7-397D-11D9-A788-000A95BA54A6@apple.com> <20041118100933.A4942@synopsys.com> <F5E55C80-39BF-11D9-8317-00039390FFE2@apple.com>

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 04:14:21PM -0800, Ziemowit Laski wrote:
> 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. :-)

You just completely ignored what I wrote.  Go back and read it again.
Cast-as-lvalue breaks valid C++ programs.  Period.  It breaks programs
that never assign to a cast.

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