From -5524383038060295087
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: f78e5,f86cdbd4280bf4a1
X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-27 06:15:40 PST
Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!slsv6bt!news
From: kanze@us-es.sel.de (James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/164 #71425)
Subject: Re: Bytes and Characters
In-Reply-To: sfc@datascope.com's message of Tue, 25 Oct 1994 14:44:08 GMT
Message-ID: <KANZE.94Oct26220005@slsvhdt.us-es.sel.de>
Lines: 24
Sender: news@lts.sel.alcatel.de
Organization: SEL
References: <JASON.94Oct17172312@phydeaux.cygnus.com>
	<1994Oct25.144408.21066@datascope.com>
Date: 26 Oct 1994 21:00:05 GMT

In article <1994Oct25.144408.21066@datascope.com> sfc@datascope.com
(Steve F. Cipolli (P/M)) writes:

|> Also, while were on this topic, has anyone continued the fight to make "nil" a
|> legitimate keyword; thus removing ambiguity like this:

|> class X {
|> public:
|> 	X(int i);
|> 	X(void *p);
|> };

|> void F() {
|> 	X x(0);		// Ambiguous: Is it nil or zero?
|> } 

I made a proposal along these lines.  It was not accepted.
-- 
James Kanze      Tel.: (+33) 88 14 49 00     email: kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de
GABI Software, Sarl., 8 rue des Francs-Bourgeois, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
Conseils en informatique industrielle --
                              -- Beratung in industrieller Datenverarbeitung