From 5077125654262852842 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,ccbfcafab96cf493 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-27 09:07:01 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: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Proposol to increase robustness of programs Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:06:26 GMT Organization: Klub Nieszkodliwych =?iso-8859-2?Q?Manjak=F3w?= Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: References: <3BFE97B3.91430FB1@wanadoo.fr> <3C006716.4070201@earthlink.net> <3C025715.9050709@earthlink.net> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1006880792 mail2news:28108 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) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 07:56:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.2 (Linux) Lines: 23 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:8314 Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:18:04 GMT, Edward Diener pisze: > My personal view of C++ is that the spirit of the language is that the > programmer is in charge and should know how to do things within the > language syntax. Adding language syntax to make it easier to use the > language effectively is one thing but adding language syntax to prevent > a programmer making an error seems to me to be wrong. What about public, private and protected? They don't increase expressiveness, only make some mistakes detected by the compiler. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk * qrczak@knm.org.pl http://qrczak.ids.net.pl/ \__/ ^^ QRCZAK --- [ 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 ]