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From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
Subject: Re: Name.Hiding.die.die.die
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In article <3jfie5$ltl@panix3.panix.com>, tmurphy@panix.com (Timothy Murphy) writes:
> 
> Name Hiding: Threat or Menace?
> 
> Timothy S. Murphy   5 March 1995.
> 
> 
>   A few observations and proposals regarding the C++ language standard.
> The last draft specification (DS) I looked at was dated 20 September 1994;
> I also refer to the ARM.
> 
>    Please rip this apart, both with your editor and your words; ...

I decline to do so, partly because it is rather late, and partly because
this issue has been visited before.

It probably won't be enough to say that your way was tried, and was found
severely wanting.  In fact, most people think of doing it that way, and
it was only experience with doing it that way that led to the current rule.
-- 
 (This man's opinions are his own.)
 From mole-end				Mark Terribile
 mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
	(Training and consulting in C, C++, UNIX, etc.)