From 3610238219943615987 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,5be30c38f618a07b X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-27 17:45:00 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!diablo.theplanet.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Why switch w/ only integral types? Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 00:44:07 GMT Organization: KBC Financial Products Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <3CF1A84E.4070406@mail.com> References: <6ee7d287.0203202005.63e0b7b3@posting.google.com> <3CCE6310.672E55DF@webmaster.com> <3CED0FA3.1050102@mail.com> <3CEE4814.3070102@mail.com> <3CEE94AC.4060302@mail.com> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1022546654 mail2news:9390 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au 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) 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@mosquito.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Lines: 17 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:11574 Hans Aberg wrote: > Isn't it a bit strange to second guess the opinions of a group of people, > like the committee, or any individual, instead of letting them speak for > themselves? Not strange at all. I've been reading this group for years, from well before the standard was adopted. I believe I have some insight into the kinds of things that are acceptable and the kinds of things that are not. If anything like this cases thing makes it into a revision, I'll eat my hat. --- [ 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 ]