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From: gary@neptune.uucp (Gary Bisaga  x4219)
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Subject: Re: Borland language extension virtual function = [ ... ];
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.172538.18568@europa.asd.contel.com>
Date: 28 Jun 91 17:25:38 GMT
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Comment: After 1 July, gbisaga@mitre.org

In article <1991Jun28.141744.2323@nthropy.uucp> blake@nthropy.UUCP (Blake Freeburg) writes:
>About this Borland Extension,
>   What I really can't understand is how I would use it in a program.  Can
>I also have a class that responds to messages, or is it something that must 
>come out in order to support MS Win X.XX and all their yoga programming 
>practices.  ...
Before we all get TOO worked up about this, is there a person from
Borland who can explain what is really going on?  Personally, the idea
I got from the original poster was that the person who told HIM about
the alleged extension (i.e., not the poster, but the poster's source)
didn't necessarily know what he was talking about -- he was a marketing
manager or something, wasn't he?

Anyway, I can't imagine how such a thing could be added to C++ itself.
Maybe he was describing a front-end to C++ that assists with writing
Windows code?  It wouldn't be the first time such a thing was done.