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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Inheritance and references question
Message-ID: <27D79CFF.1ADF@tct.uucp>
Date: 8 Mar 91 14:17:34 GMT
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According to jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK):
>The way C++ *ought* to work in this situation is that an array formal 
>argument is *implicitly* converted to a reference to an array of the 
>same type.  That way the C tradition that arrays are passed by reference 
>would be maintained, and C++ could be a type-safe language.

C++ is a type-safe language.  It just isn't pointer-safe.  And no
small change along the lines described by Jim will make it so.