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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
Subject: Re: "->" == "." proposal
Message-ID: <522@taumet.com>
Date: 18 Nov 90 01:10:26 GMT
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db@tc.fluke.COM (Dan Banay) writes:

>In article <27304544.3658@marob.masa.com>, cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan) writes:
>> Would a knowledgeable person tell me by e-mail how to get this idea before
>> the ANSI committee?  I know the answer is "send in a recommendation";
>> what I want is address, format of request, etc.

>ditto.

The ANSI C++ committee (X3J16) is already considering proposals to
allow overloading of '.' (dot).  So far as I know, there is no pending
proposal to make '.' and '->' equivalent.  One of the committee members
has been tasked to promulgate a procedure to the public for making
proposals to the committee.  Watch comp.lang.c++ and comp.std.c++
for more information.  The committee met this past week (12-16 November),
and will meet again next in March 1991.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com