generalized lvalues -- patch outline

[Matt Austern]

On Nov 22, 2004, at 4:09 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:

> Matt Austern wrote:
>> On Nov 22, 2004, at 12:45 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
>
>> If it's possible to make some limited subset of this work without 
>> hurting C++ correctness, then I think we ought to do it.  We don't 
>> want to gratuitously break compatibility with other compilers.
>
> I don't necessarily agree.
>
> I understand why that's important to Apple, but I'm not sure it's a 
> mission priority for the FSF.  We know that this kind of thing makes 
> for lots of bugs, and I'm sure that a mission priority is having 
> relatively few bugs.
>
> I think that maybe the SC needs to give an opinion, not on this 
> extension, but on the overall goal of MSVC/CodeWarrior/... 
> compatibility.

Partly depends on what the value of "..." actually is.  I'd be 
interested in seeing whether other compilers (EDG? IBM? Sun? HP?) 
support this extension.

			--Matt