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From: jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Some comments on Lippman's
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Date: 8 Sep 89 18:28:21 GMT
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>Grandi:
>p. 218	Rule that member functions bodies can reference not yet declared
>	data members means that one pass compile is impossible. As far as
>	I can tell it is the only case in C++/C where use can precede
>	declaration (whether this is implicit or explicit). What's so wrong
>	with declaring all data members before the functions that use them?

Well, AT&T's release notes pg. A-5 points out that the 2.0 compiler has
"known problems" in some cases where names are used before declared.
...Nothing like a few compiler bugs to keep a programmer honest! :-)