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From: gkt@iitmax.iit.edu (George Thiruvathukal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: solution to implementing parameterized classes
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.171947.28079@iitmax.iit.edu>
Date: 12 Jun 91 17:19:47 GMT
References: <1991Jun9.013306.4462@cs.sfu.ca> <1991Jun9.204515.18040@ms.uky.edu> <1991Jun11.183133.11458@auto-trol.com>
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In article <1991Jun11.183133.11458@auto-trol.com>, mattel@auto-trol.com (Matt Telles) writes:
>    FINALLY!  Someone else that dislikes the idea of a pointer to nothing ...
> Can't we define a type called generic????  (You know, like a generic pointer).
> Matt

...or perhaps one could be allowed to declare variables of type void, given its
distinguished status as a "scalar" type :-).  Then one can declare variables 
which hold nothing and for which no space is allocated.

-- 
George Thiruvathukal

Laboratory for Parallel Computing and Languages
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago