From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c++ "with" keyword
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 15:24:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15894.64524.464371.216489@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87el7tneoh.fsf@merlin.maxx.bg>
Momchil Velikov writes:
> >>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> writes:
>
> Robert> If you think "with" is valuable, then the task is to
> Robert> convince the guardians of the C++ standard of this. If
> Robert> you can't convince the
>
> Not related to this particular "with" discussion, but I couldn't
> disagree more. A standards body should not invent language
> "features", but rather codify existing (proven) extensions.
I totally agree. A standards should not invent language features, or
-- heaven forbid -- programming languages. The reason for this is
pretty obvious, in that once a feature is standardized it's too late
to remove it if it has some fatal flaw.
See Algol 68 for what happens if you do it the other way...
Andrew.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-04 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-04 14:29 Robert Dewar
2003-01-04 15:00 ` Momchil Velikov
2003-01-04 15:24 ` Andrew Haley [this message]
2003-01-04 16:25 ` Neil Booth
2003-01-04 17:35 ` Gianni Mariani
2003-01-04 17:59 ` Tolga Dalman
2003-01-04 18:36 ` Gianni Mariani
2003-01-04 18:54 ` Tolga Dalman
2003-01-04 23:32 ` Kevin Handy
2003-01-14 14:33 ` Fergus Henderson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-06 13:07 Robert Dewar
2003-01-05 18:41 Robert Dewar
2003-01-05 13:03 Robert Dewar
2003-01-05 13:39 ` Toon Moene
2003-01-05 12:56 Robert Dewar
2003-01-06 12:18 ` Andrew Haley
2003-01-05 12:56 Robert Dewar
2003-01-05 18:22 ` Joseph S. Myers
2003-01-05 12:44 Robert Dewar
2003-01-05 3:16 Robert Dewar
2003-01-05 0:38 Robert Dewar
2003-01-05 0:29 Robert Dewar
2003-01-05 0:37 ` Kevin Handy
2003-01-04 23:27 Robert Dewar
2003-01-04 23:36 ` Lynn Winebarger
2003-01-05 2:55 ` Gianni Mariani
2003-01-04 22:13 Robert Dewar
2003-01-04 20:59 Robert Dewar
2003-01-04 22:36 ` Gianni Mariani
2003-01-04 20:09 Robert Dewar
2003-01-04 19:36 Robert Dewar
2003-01-04 19:59 ` Tolga Dalman
2003-01-04 19:13 Robert Dewar
2003-01-04 20:58 ` Gianni Mariani
2003-01-04 18:11 Robert Dewar
2003-01-04 18:47 ` Gianni Mariani
2003-01-04 17:52 Robert Dewar
2003-01-04 17:59 ` Gianni Mariani
2003-01-04 17:06 Robert Dewar
2003-01-04 17:22 ` Daniel Berlin
2003-01-05 11:33 ` Andrew Haley
2003-01-05 11:36 ` Toon Moene
2002-12-29 8:32 Norman Jonas
2002-12-29 12:46 ` Russ Allbery
2002-12-29 6:49 Erik Schnetter
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