Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekchips!tekcrl!brucec From: brucec@phoebus.labs.tek.com (Bruce Cohen;;50-662;LP=A;) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: ::Foo() Message-ID: Date: 28 Nov 90 03:31:12 GMT References: <1990Nov21.152532.5147@ssd.kodak.com> Sender: news@tekchips.LABS.TEK.COM Distribution: usa Organization: Tektronix Inc. Lines: 11 In-reply-to: randolph@ssd.kodak.com's message of 21 Nov 90 15:25:32 GMT I'll need some more time to think about the reasonability of the proposed syntax, but I'll second the need for something that allows *complete* static initialization of an object in a compiler-independent way. I want to be able to put an object in ROM on an embedded computer, and right now I have to tapdance very fast with compiler-dependent naming schemes to do it. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Speaker-to-managers, aka Bruce Cohen, Computer Research Lab email: brucec@tekchips.labs.tek.com Tektronix Laboratories, Tektronix, Inc. phone: (503)627-5241 M/S 50-662, P.O. Box 500, Beaverton, OR 97077