Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!hsi!stpstn!cox
From: cox@stpstn.UUCP (Brad Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.objective-c
Subject: Re: You know what I hate.....
Message-ID: <5723@stpstn.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 90 15:27:55 GMT
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Reply-To: cox@stpstn.UUCP (Brad Cox)
Organization: Stepstone
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In article <-T4%8D_@rpi.edu> mcintyre@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David McIntyre) writes:
>I reported the first bug to Stepstone a very long time ago (maybe over a
>year) but never received either a confirmation, denial or bug fix.  Sigh.

I hate it when...(1) when a company spokesman makes excuses and (2) when
Stepstone, the company I'm a spokesman for, fumbles and situations like
this arise.

I have passed your note to the group responsible for customer support, who
will investigate why we failed in this case. Perhaps this will insure that 
the failure does not recur in the future. Our policy is that all calls are
to be followed up.

I didn't respond to the specific complaint in your note (i.e. that typedef
struct { ...; struct { } a,b; ...} ... doesn't work properly, because I
wasn't even aware of it myself.

Are you using our compiler, or NeXT's?

The #define String XString; ... #undef String trick is handy, and something
I've has to resort to myself occasionally. In fact, as I recall, at one
time or another either X or SunWindows had a variable named 'id' that
I 'cured' with the same trick.

Thanks for posting it. I'll try to get it added to future releases of
the reference manual.
-- 

Brad Cox; cox@stepstone.com; CI$ 71230,647; 203 426 1875
The Stepstone Corporation; 75 Glen Road; Sandy Hook CT 06482