From 7612402067742127977 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,ede379f5dbbc1549 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: sirwillard@my-deja.com Subject: Re: Suggestion: "typeof" keyword Date: 1999/08/12 Message-ID: <7oup0a$8g2$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 511886867 Approved: Valentin Bonnard References: <7nt3vl$1oe$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7oh7o8$t3f$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7ol6hi$ej9$2@news.BelWue.DE> X-Original-Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:25:13 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: backdraft.briar.org: smap set sender to using -f X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT) X-Http-Proxy: 1.1 x29.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 167.16.75.51 Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't. X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Aug 12 15:25:13 1999 GMT X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ iQBVAwUAN7LntawEuYhIxRhxAQGqFwH/YfvtR3Yb8cBNxDRaoQ6peU4FGGETYHGJ sQHrHDgE0o/H8VDuZPHJshOU6vcBemE3Iq23Hi8N3Uw9ShyjS/UicA== =6oEP X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDsirwillard Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ In article , Hyman Rosen wrote: > Francis Glassborow writes: > > In order to gain support you need to explain carefully (with examples) > > exactly what it is to do and what kind of non-academic problem it will > > solve. Code examples help. > > The basic problem it addresses is that there is no way, in general, > to obtain the type of an expression as a typename that can be used > in further declarations. This is especially a problem with templates. Though I'd like the introduction of typeof, I feel someone should play at least a bit of devils advocate. What should be the result of the following? base* p = new derived; typeof(*p) copy(*p); Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't. --- [ 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 ]