From -6215933135877448776 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,e0420ef247a8cf1c X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!koehntopp.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.csl-gmbh.net!skynet.be!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!mutlu.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull From: pchapin@sover.net ("Peter C. Chapin") Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Modules for C++? Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:10:00 GMT Organization: Kelsey Mountain Software Lines: 21 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: References: <1150708440.004686.63000@r2g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1150826573.819195.39710@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1150902614 22157 158.152.254.254 (21 Jun 2006 15:10:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:10:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 X-Greylisting: NO DELAY (Relay+Sender autoqualified); processed by UCSD_GL-v2.1 on mailbox10.ucsd.edu; Wed, 21 June 2006 04:40:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id k5LFA0FM026038; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 01:10:00 +1000 (EST) X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Delivered-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu X-Spamscanner: mailbox10.ucsd.edu (v1.6 Aug 4 2005 15:27:38, -2.8/5.0 3.0.4) X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.8 89578 k5LBel3K089719 mailbox10.ucsd.edu) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.std.c++:2445 "shodan" wrote in news:1150826573.819195.39710 @p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com: > Look at this: > http://code.google.com/soc/boost/appinfo.html?csaid=49B62B977DB56161 > > It seems someone is working on it already This looks like a preprocessor to convert modules into "normal" C++. I'm not sure how that will work, exactly, but it seems to negate one important (to me) advantage of modules... namely protection of names from violence due to the preprocessor. Peter --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]