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From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Angry new C++ programmer: GENERIC CODE?
Message-ID: <59508@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 3 Dec 90 18:53:10 GMT
References: <6907@plains.NoDak.edu> <1990Nov25.055108.2898@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <6907@plains.NoDak.edu>, jmork@plains.NoDak.edu (James Mork) writes:
|>   I am still digging my way into C++ but I am angry to find no
|> facilities for generic code--as in Ada.  Can you do this?  

Well, if your going to be angry, at least apply your heat in the "right"
place!  The ANSI-C++ committee has decided that the templates "generic
classes" facilities are "in" the C++ language.  So now you need to go apply
heat to your C++ compiler vendor to get their compilers up to spec. :-)
See Ellis & Stroustrup "The Annotated C++ Reference Manual"  Addison-Wesley
1990 ISBN 0-201-51459-1 for how templates are suppose to work.

To date, most people have been faking template capabilities using the
C++ macro preprocessor.  A doable, but less than completely satisfactory
approach.

[ Also note that termination-style exceptions as presented in ARM are also
 "in" the C++ language now too. ]


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