g++ 2.95 typeinfo::name()

[Dima Volodin]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:19:44 -0800 (PST), you wrote:

>And in this case, I felt it was more of the fact that enough had been
>invented in committee (this is a bad thing) and we wanted to not think
>about what additional stuff we'd have to invent to spec name() and
>that that we were sloppy in not requiring strcmp(name) iff typeid ==.
>We all _knew_ this is what we meant, no contention, which made it less
>likely that we'd spend time to clarify it.  Things were we only
>thought we knew what we meant that were sloppy (templates for example)
>got time.

It's been quite a while since the train left the station, so there's no
point in explaining yourself now.


Dima