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From: bs@alice.UUCP (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ Parameterization Progress?
Summary: some progress
Message-ID: <9511@alice.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 89 15:26:53 GMT
References: <6590158@hplsla.HP.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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Jim Adcock at HP Lake Stevens, WA writes:

 > Now that C++ [almost] has multiple inheritence under the belt,
 > what can we expect to see in the way of parameterized classes?

See `Parameterized Types for C++' in the Proceedings of the Denver USENIX C++
conference and in the first JOOP issue this year. It is quite detailed.

 > How serious are the intentions to get this into the language?

Very. It is not an issue of `if' but of `when'. However, don't hold your
breath. These things take time - often more than you would think.

 > Has any more progress been
 > made in choice of capabilities/syntax? (A better knowledge of where this
 > is going would at least allow us to write hack-parameterized classes more
 > easily converted to the eventual syntax)

 > [signed: sick-of-hack-cpp-parameterization]

I'll second that one.