From 5463093237112314348 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,174aa7b34b06a51 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.speakeasy.net!news.speakeasy.net.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:00:01 -0600 Return-Path: X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu From: Hyman Rosen Subject: Re: Is this really unspecified behavior? MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ References: <1132629737.664847.151630@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1132662585.882464.24110@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1132809799.629407.12230@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <15phf.161544$zb5.145459@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> Message-Id: <20051125144435.31EA211406E@mscan6.ucar.edu> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ucar.edu X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:56:40 CST Lines: 17 NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.182.171.162 X-Trace: sv3-IEnzknlEZCkOL2zxau4SpPnHusnP4P5t9dO4xAyZ5UvMeYyAsqMyUElqsIcC3FK528fc/DiR4u0VowI!0gixClZPrGJOLCpSWV17Gdy7WK1+vyBX1pLEVyZBW4jXqB8Ih7uR4Xj1mNDOCUrPfz2jdEup1h/Z!DqTMzQfrGAIRxNsci6Mn4bzvXTdf X-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:2597 Andrew Koenig wrote: > Part of the point is to be able to translate a C++ expression into the > equivalent C expression without changing its meaning. Since when? Certainly there was a goal that C code should carry forward into C++ with its meaning generally unchanged, but why would anyone care about going the other way? And if that is what you want, you have to avoid all sorts of C++ constructs anyway, so you would just avoid C-ambiguous expressions as well. --- [ 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.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]