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From: marti@ethz.UUCP (Robert Marti)
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Subject: Re: Think C 4.0
Summary: THINK C 4.0 *not* a subset of C++, after all?
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Date: 28 Aug 89 06:57:45 GMT
References: <227700036@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <227700036@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, jpd00964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> First, [Symantec] appear to have included the commands this and inherited:  
> These are equivalent to the self and super of Objective C which most C++
> books seem to ignore.

How very interesting.  If this is true, THINK C 4.0 is neither a superset
of C++ 2.0 (which their deliberatly ambiguous claim of upward compatibility
suggested to some people) *nor* a subset of C++ 2.0:  In C++, the equivalent
of super in Smalltalk (and probably Objective-C) is achieved by explicitly
naming the superclass whose method (member function) is to be invoked using
the scope resolution operator ::.

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