From 1476226011776443424 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,fb1a92fa405c930c X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: stanley@West.Sun.COM (Stanley Friesen [Contractor]) Subject: Re: nested functions Date: 1999/06/09 Message-ID: <7jm9o6$i67@abyss.West.Sun.COM>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 487624831 Approved: Fergus Henderson References: <7jd4c5$nup$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7jfkcr$na6$1@engnews1.eng.sun.com> <7jjq0g$tlu$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Original-Date: 9 Jun 1999 17:54:14 GMT X-Complaints-To: news@news.unimelb.edu.au X-Trace: izvestia.its.unimelb.edu.au 928958472 6986 128.250.29.16 (9 Jun 1999 20:01:12 GMT) Organization: SunSoft South, Los Angeles, CA X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ iQBFAgUAN17H7+EDnX0m9pzZAQGEqQF/UMB+GnWTJs0RnNss8JE3K9bSgo3h+hRl UujfCc7NseeSMJQxn0/xdNO+R24CSgpH =p441 NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Jun 1999 20:01:12 GMT Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ In article <7jjq0g$tlu$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >On the other hand, with C++ the situation changed quite radically. >Templates are in, and they (and the way the standard library uses >them) enable working with local functions in a natural, elegant way. While this is so, I see local functions as providing too much potential for abuse and obscured code, for too little added power for me to want to see the feature. > >With all due respect, the fact that there are local classes but no local >functions is to me an over-OOPism of the commitee members. Andrew's >spartan answer is not relieving. Okay, the proposal was rejected, but >the question is: was it rejected for a good reason? If yes, what's the >good reason - and what's the one for adding local classes? Furthermore, >why does one reason not apply to the other case? Etcaetera. Actually, I have found little good use for local classes either. Most cases I have seen where one might want this are better handled as embedded classes or as classes in an anonymous namespace. I would not really be too upset if local classes were eliminated from the language. > >As it is now, the local classes feature is kind of like the preprocessor >is: a nice idea, but implemented in a way that's deceptively close to >usefulness. I am not convinced that local classes are really that nice an idea. --- [ 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 ]