From -4110240227902455851 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,fbe10986a90d9275 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-19 14:36:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!kibo.news.demon.net!mutlu.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!devnull From: francis@robinton.demon.co.uk (Francis Glassborow) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Proposal for adding two keywords for explicit modification Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:36:53 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Southfield Microcomputer SS Lines: 24 Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: References: <20040119114736.63476.qmail@web20904.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1074551813 11667 10.0.0.1 (19 Jan 2004 22:36:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:36:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Received: from mulga.cs.mu.oz.au ([128.250.1.22]) by news.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 1Aii0q-000322-00 for mail2news@news.news.demon.net; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:36:52 +0000 X-Received: from mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU with ESMTP id i0JMammC008041; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:36:48 +1100 (EST) X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id i0JMam7S008030; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:36:48 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ X-User-Agent: Turnpike/6.02-U () X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.2 required=5.2 tests=AWL,MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR autolearn=no version=2.60-mulga_r1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-mulga_r1 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:892 In article <20040119114736.63476.qmail@web20904.mail.yahoo.com>, Omar Shaikh writes >Hello, all > >I have a suggestion to make that I believe should be a >very useful addition to the C++ programming language. >Please do let me know if what I have to suggest makes >sense, and any suggestion would be definitely welcome. Adding keywords always needs a very substantial value and is never undertaken lightly. I do not think you have shown sufficient value to make it worth breaking legacy code. -- Francis Glassborow ACCU Author of 'You Can Do It!' see http://www.spellen.org/youcandoit --- [ 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 ]