From 6549953773717607266 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,9a6b7da9ba54eaea X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-07-06 11:38:51 PST Path: gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!jfc From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: C++ Language Extensions Date: 6 Jul 1993 18:30:28 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 12 Message-ID: <21cgc4$l1@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> References: <25936@alice.att.com> <25939@alice.att.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: porter.mit.edu In article <25939@alice.att.com> ark@alice.UUCP () writes: >Then there is the problem of what character to use for the operator. >I picked ~ for this example, but that's really inappropriate because >it's not among the characters guaranteed to be present in every country >(remember: this is an international standard we're working on). Do you plan to remove destructors and unary ~ from the language? I think it's too late to object to use of ~. -- John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)