From -487114035482476950 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,ccbfcafab96cf493 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-03 11:41:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!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: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 19:40:20 GMT Organization: Dinkumware, Ltd Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <3C092E79.99F71B09@acm.org> References: <3BFE97B3.91430FB1@wanadoo.fr> <3C058126.36357A00@acm.org> <3C067EC8.F10BC9D2@acm.org> <200111300634.HAA04435@brick.ens.fr> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1007408427 mail2news:11566 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: 1 Dec 2001 19:24:13 GMT X-Accept-Language: en Lines: 36 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:8435 Valentin Bonnard wrote: > > Pete Becker wrote: > > Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > >> > >> Certainly, it is doable. But then, the same argument applies for > >> checking that no object of an abstract class can be created. Are you > >> also arguing that that feature solves a non-problem? > >> > > > > No, that's not part of this discussion. > > So you are for the stato-quo, because it's the statu-quo, and > against changes, because they are changes. > I see no basis in what I've said for this ad hominem argument. I denied that I made an argument that I didn't make. That's all. -- Pete Becker Dinkumware, Ltd. (http://www.dinkumware.com) ======================================= MODERATOR'S COMMENT: Let's be careful to keep this discussion focused on the technical, and avoid the personal. We don't have a flame war yet, and we should keep it that way. --- [ 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 ]