From -8945498087589857963 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,ccbfcafab96cf493 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-04 12:04:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Pete Becker Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Proposol to increase robustness of programs Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 20:03:17 GMT Organization: Dinkumware, Ltd Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <3C0D2B51.3E77E5BA@acm.org> References: <3BFE97B3.91430FB1@wanadoo.fr> <3C058126.36357A00@acm.org> <7dc3b1ea.0111300954.186f1ff5@posting.google.com> <3C094998.F387ABB1@acm.org> <7dc3b1ea.0112040358.1ab543ba@posting.google.com> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1007496202 mail2news:24402 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) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Dec 2001 19:59:49 GMT X-Accept-Language: en Lines: 20 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:8472 Peter Dimov wrote: > > To give an example: making a class abstract is enough, in current C++, > to prevent instantiation. I don't _need_ to test whether the class can > be instantiated, copied, sliced to, because I've already taken care of > this. This probably makes me a bad programmer by your definition Not by my definition. Please don't attribute positions to me that I do not hold. -- Pete Becker Dinkumware, Ltd. (http://www.dinkumware.com) --- [ 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.research.att.com/~austern/csc/faq.html ]