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- From: satish@sun.mcs.clarkson.edu (Satish Thatte)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: "like current" for C++
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.192744.21146@news.clarkson.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:27:44 GMT
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- Has there been any discussion in the C++ community about adopting
- Eiffel's "like current" typing idea? This is a great
- way of avoiding much awkwardness (and explicit casting)
- resulting from the (quite necessary) rule that replacement
- definitions for virtual functions must have EXACTLY the
- same signature as the original declaration.
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- IMHO this is one of the issues worthy of discussion
- as part of the standardization effort for C++.
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- Satish
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- P.S. I can supply examples if anyone finds them necessary.
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- P.P.S. Forgive my ignorance if this has already been discussed;
- and please reply directly to me -- I am not a regular reader of newsgroups.
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