From 4989974268865990655 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,a76a320bf483dfd6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!mutlu.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull From: andre@ba-z.co.jp (Andre Caldas) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Proposal: new keywords: freeze | unfreeze | hide | unhide | forget [, ...] Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 02:06:08 GMT Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 22 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1112925979 23533 158.152.254.254 (8 Apr 2005 02:06:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 02:06:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050116) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id j38268ak004146; Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:06:08 +1000 (EST) X-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 00:47:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:4447 > It would be useful if the language had the following additions: > > 1) "freeze" (and "unfreeze") varname, ... > to freeze a variable's current content, that is to make it > constant for the rest of the function (or upto an "unfreeze" > within the same function). > (volatile variables shall still be changable from other locations). > > 2) "hide" (and "unhide") varname, ... *snip* > 3) "forget" varname, ... *snip* > This would help making programs more robust. Write smaller functions and your program will be more robust. --- [ 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 ]