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From: keith@cecil.UUCP (keith gorlen)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c++
Subject: Re: the C++ scope operator
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Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 12:32:52 EST
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>must be specified.  The name of the parent (base) class is
>available to the compiler, but the programmer must state it
>explicitly.  This seems unmodular.  (Granted, it can't

I agree.  I've been hacking around this by using #define BASE and
#define THIS as identifiers for the base class and this class,
respectively.  When I want to refer to a specific class, I use class::
and when I want to refer to the base class I use BASE::.

>(Multiple inheritance anyone?  Anybody thinking about it besides me?
>That's a subject for another posting.)

Bye-bye efficiency -- not to mention comprehensibility!  It's not
worth it!  Maybe in a special dialect called C++Flavors.
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	Keith Gorlen
	Computer Systems Laboratory
	Division of Computer Research and Technology
	National Institutes of Health
	Bethesda, MD 20892
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