From 8498633965609021931 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,5be30c38f618a07b X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-28 13:10:01 PST Return-Path: X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) Message-ID: <3CF3D9B6.1000808@mail.com> From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Why switch w/ only integral types? References: <6ee7d287.0203202005.63e0b7b3@posting.google.com> <3CCE6310.672E55DF@webmaster.com> <3CED0FA3.1050102@mail.com> <3CEE4814.3070102@mail.com> <3CEE94AC.4060302@mail.com> <3CF1A84E.4070406@mail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: KBC Financial Products Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@mosquito.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Trace: 1022613949 reader2.ash.ops.us.uu.net 16206 204.253.250.10 Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 15:09:40 CST Lines: 26 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:11622 Hans Aberg wrote: > It seems me that you posts contains some contradictions, as you said > something to the effect that are not a member of the committee, but wanted > to join just in order to ensure that the proposal should not be accepted. There was a smiley on that. > In my experience, when one sees highly emotional statements like "the C++ > committee will do this or that", one can be pretty sure that is used in > order to hide away the fact that there are no real underlying factual > arguments. That's not a highly emotional statement, just my opinion about what is likely to happen, based on what I have seen on this newsgroup for many years. A highly emotional statement would go something like this: "The cases statement is an abortion that could only have been designed by a Visual Basic programmer, and a dumb one at that. If the committee ever allows such a thing, I'm going to switch to writing all my programs in J# and never use C++ again." See the difference? --- [ 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 ]