Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!santra!santra!Ari.Huttunen From: Ari.Huttunen@hut.fi (Ari Juhani Huttunen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: overloading operator . and -> Message-ID: Date: 26 Mar 91 00:24:02 GMT References: <14.UUL1.3#8618@softrue.UUCP> <4608@lupine.NCD.COM> Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: rfg@NCD.COM's message of 25 Mar 91 00:48:53 GMT In article <4608@lupine.NCD.COM> rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette) writes: >Of course nobody should bother to suggest at this stage that this may >have been a mistake. As Steven says: "It's too late". There is too >large of an "installed base" already which depends upon this ill-conceived >"feature". It's never too late. And one can't expect a language to change just by _adding_ things. For an analogy, take a look at your Swiss knife. Who ever needs that many blades? -- Ari Huttunen, email: Ari.Huttunen@hut.fi, phone: 90-7285944