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- From: hendrik@vedge.com (Hendrik Boom)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Safe version of C++
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.221301.23322@vedge.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:13:01 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.144630.17241@vedge.com>
- Organization: Visual Edge Software Ltd.
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- hendrik@vedge.com (Hendrik Boom) writes:
- : hlf@nic.cerf.net (Howard Ferguson) writes:
- : : I am wondering about overloading operators and const objects.
- : : Do any of you netters have any opinions on these areas, or
- : : any other area of C++ which could be dropped to produce a
- : : restricted version of the language for simplicity and safety.
- :
- : Someone a few months ago posted an announcement that to their
- : great surprise, they managed to define a safe subset of C, so safe
- ...
- : Please let me know, by email or public posting, if anyone DEOS locate this
- : sublanguage.
-
- It appears that this safe, garbage-collectible C++ was/is-being devised by
- Dave Detlefs and John Ellis, who will post an announcement when their paper
- is ready. It includes a safe subset of C whose use precludes
- invalid pointers.
-
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