slices ; Stroustrup & libstdc++

[brent verner]

on Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 04:09:04AM -0600, llewelly@dbritsch.dsl.xmission.com typed aloud:
| 
| It might be worthwhile to check the errata for 3rd edition, at
|   www.research.att.com/~bs/3rd_errata.html ; there are several errors
|   mentioned on pgs 670-671.

yes, that was my first destination last night :)

the one errata that he lists still implies that the non-const 
reference can be assigned to a local... he just uses a standard
slice_array::operator=(valarray) instead of a non-standard
slice_array::operator=(int)... it does nothing to change the 
implication that the slice_array& can be locally defined :\

FWIW, Josuttis (whose book Rocks!) only gave examples using
slice_array& valarray::operator[](slice) as an lvalue, and
mentioned that the valarray classes, "were not designed very well.
In fact, nobody tried to determine whether the final specification
worked."

  Brent

| unfortunately, I cannot find my copy of 3rd edition, and the errata are
|   hard to read without one; I cannot tell what might be relevant.
|
| > | libstdc++.so.3.0.0) wrong, or am i missing something?
| > | 
| > | greetings,
| > | -gerhard
| > 
| > 
| 

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