Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncratl!dspoon
From: dspoon@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM (Dave Witherspoon)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ for DOS/OS2
Keywords: C++ DOS OS/2
Message-ID: <989@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM>
Date: 22 Sep 89 17:56:04 GMT
References: <293@softeng1.UUCP> <236@dbase.UUCP> <977@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM> <6505@columbia.edu>
Organization: NCR Corporation, E&M Atlanta
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In article <6505@columbia.edu>, kearns@moritz.columbia.edu (Steve Kearns) writes:
> Here is a nifty trick I use to get around the problem of
> translators that generate names which are not unique in the first
> 32 characters.  
> 
> If your class is called "BigString", then at the top of your
> BigString.h file put 
> "#define BigString bS"
> 
> This makes the internal name of BigString the much shorter name bS
> and has always solved my problems.  

Thanks for the tip, Steve.  You may be posting this when you saw my post
on the problems I had with Glockenspiel's C++ translator.  The problem I
had had to do with overloading operator<< for an ostream.  The names
were almost completely out of my control, so I'm not sure that your
trick would have helped me back then.  In any case, I refuse to kluge
around compiler problems that are 2 levels away (i.e., in the
translator, once removed from the compiler).

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