Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!taumet!steve From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: C++ Question/Dewhurst Message-ID: <248@taumet.com> Date: 6 Jun 90 15:51:07 GMT References: Reply-To: steve@taumet.UUCP (Stephen Clamage) Distribution: comp Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego Lines: 15 In article aaron@rruxh.UUCP (Akman) writes: >I'm reading the Dewhurst, Stark text on C++, and I have a question >re Genericity: I gather, from pp. 88-91, that using generic.h >macros to fake genericity is a standard way of doing business? ... Well, comes with the AT&T release of C++ version 2.0 and 2.1. It is not part of the *language* (as defined by the reference manual). So "standard" is probably not the correct term to use here. It is actually a stop-gap until templates (generic types) are part of the C++ language, at which time will be obsolete. But don't dump those files yet, folks, it may be a while before we have templates. -- Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com