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From: dbinder@bnr.ca (David Binderman)
Subject: Re: Access control
Date: 1995/07/06
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Jonathan de Boyne Pollard (JdeBP@jba.co.uk) wrote:
: //
: //	The following code does not compile on MetaWare High C++ 3.31a,
: //	but compiles without error on Borland C++ 2.0 for OS/2, IBM 
: //	VisualAge C++ 3.00, EMX C++ 0.9a, and Watcom C++ 10.0b.  
: //

: //	Comments please.

cfront 3 likes it, and g++ 2.7.0 likes it. So using the compiler majority
vote rule, its a bug in Metaware.

Even if it isn't a bug in Metaware, n - 1 compilers like the code,
so that code is de-facto legal.

Regards

David C Binderman MSc BSc       dbinder@bnr.co.uk         +44 1628 794 887
Object Oriented Design & Analysis with C++ since 1988
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