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From: jimad@microsoft.com (Jim ADCOCK)
Subject: Re: Proposal for user defined operaters.
Message-ID: <1992May09.031639.21784@microsoft.com>
Date: 09 May 92 03:16:39 GMT
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In article <1992May6.220043.1320@taumet.com> steve@taumet.com (Steve Clamage) writes:
|The effect is to slow down compilation of all programs, even those
|which do not want to be able to define new operators.  A design
|philosophy of C++ is that a feature should have little or no cost
|for those who do not use it.

a) This sounds like an argument against trigraphs.

b) This sounds like an argument against cast-from-const.