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From: rae@alias.com (Reid Ellis)
Subject: Re: Better Encapsulation: Overload Keywords
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.224022.20072@alias.com>
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 22:40:22 GMT

<blythe@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> writes:
|while(object)	//better encapsulation
|{
|	...
|}
...
|Overloaded keywords could let us get away from code like this:
|		while(object.status()) {...}
|to simply:
|		while(object) {...}

This can easily be accomplished right now by providing an "operator
void *" method, like the iostream classes do.  This is why you can say:

	while(cin)
	{
		cin >> buf;
		// etc..
	}


					Reid
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