From 5698458031602668356 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,ede379f5dbbc1549 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: Hyman Rosen Subject: Re: Suggestion: "typeof" keyword Date: 1999/08/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 512317599 Approved: Fergus Henderson References: <7nt3vl$1oe$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7oh7o8$t3f$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37AE541B.A998F729@cs.utu.fi> <37AFAC37.6B7F4253@cs.utu.fi> <37B43EA0.5546@wanadoo.fr> X-Original-Date: 13 Aug 1999 12:43:38 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@news.unimelb.edu.au X-Trace: izvestia.its.unimelb.edu.au 934563162 32235 128.250.29.17 (13 Aug 1999 16:52:42 GMT) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ iQBFAgUAN7RNQeEDnX0m9pzZAQHP8gF/VnhOZtWudwg/EWduLRyGDa+X8yogrRo0 x3ZR6KiaCVEFi4k6UsdAMQ1ur0GFYt0/ =bV4r Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070084 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.84) Emacs/20.3 NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Aug 1999 16:52:42 GMT Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Valentin Bonnard writes: > Hyman Rosen wrote: > > The C++ committee has adopted an Occam's Razor approach, > When ? References ? > > Given that declare is easily implementable given typeof, > > while typeof is not implementable in terms of declare, there is no chance > > that declare would be adopted. > How do you know ? Do you have a crystal ball ? I have seen commentary several times along the lines of "someone suggested this extension, but then someone else showed how it could be done in the current language, so the extension proposal was dropped". I assume that this will continue in the future. You are welcome to laugh at me should I be proven wrong. (You can even join the committee and lobby hard for declare just to prove me wrong :-) Meanwhile, I will just continue to hold my narrow, closed-minded belief that declare has a snowball's chance of being adopted. --- [ 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://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]