From 7429887080431379348 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,e8e0ab29e8861265 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.alt.net!comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail From: "Steven T. Hatton" Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: If C++ had interfaces, what would they be? Date: 29 Jul 2005 16:50:22 GMT Organization: "Altopia Corp. - Usenet Access - www.altopia.com" Lines: 56 Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: References: <1122336456.595882.282330@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <42e81ebe$0$38041$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk> <1122530279.186819.322090@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1122586008.778088.72820@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit 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 X-TN-Interface: 209.99.127.21 X-Authentication-Warning: serv1.gc.dca.giganews.com: news set sender to poster@giganews.com using -f NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:12:46 -0500 User-Agent: KNode/0.9.1 X-Trace: sv3-sOJsXbH4MPLRy/28pwkBsApyNWiOvbZp6yIxOegDGrMMTI1N31DYqRHyoqhHIcmTq5fm3nIcf7dnGFn!Wv0r3vqRKRkahh7qqUdvJA6ICoK1S4qO8sOTX8Fy/u8YJg57T4+5JIqJcuXzFIuyddz50zRaitV7!NneAni+5Y6u4+0IB6Kc= 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 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ucar.edu X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:1558 kuyper@wizard.net wrote: > Steven T. Hatton wrote: >> Bob Bell wrote: > . >> > What information do you think isn't there in a code base that would >> > have to be synthesized out of thin air? >> > >> > Bob >> > >> >> Take a look at this: >> >> http://www.java2s.com/ExampleCode/Swing-JFC/ClassBrowser.htm >> >> I challenge you to write comperable C++. I also trust the same can be >> done > > You're being too vague, again. Try to be more specific. It's a big > program, with a lot of capabilities. Which ones are you thinking of, > specifically? Do you really thing that's a big program? I condirer it tiny. That last two methods demonstrate the core principle being exhibited > Writing [a?] comparable [program for?] C++ would be a big task, and of > course it would never have exactly the same functionality; even if C++ > were better in every possible way from java, and even if C++lassBrowser > were better in every way than ClassBrowser, it wouldn't perform exactly > the same tasks. So the question is, what are the differences that are > relevant to your claim? What claim? I'm not aware of having made any claim. > If you're certain it can't be done, there must be many different > specific and valuable capabilities of ClassBrowser that you think can't > be provided for C++ code, using the lanuage as it's currently defined. > Could you please identify just one of those capabilities, so we have > some idea what you're talking about. The word I used was comperable, not identical. Having spent some time working on a comperable C++ application, I am very certain it is a non-trivial undertaking. -- STH http://www.kdevelop.org http://www.suse.com http://www.mozilla.org --- [ 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 ]