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From: mark@umcp-cs.UUCP (Mark Weiser)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c++
Subject: Re: the C++ scope operator
Message-ID: <3413@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 23:01:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 28 23:01:49 1986
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References: <4438@think.ARPA> <54@cecil.UUCP>
Reply-To: mark@maryland.UUCP (Mark Weiser)
Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
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In article <54@cecil.UUCP> keith@cecil.UUCP writes:
>
>Bye-bye efficiency -- not to mention comprehensibility!  It's not
>worth it!  Maybe in a special dialect called C++Flavors.

I don't agree.  There should be absolutely no efficiency loss, 
and the comprehensibility is much better in some cases because
of better modularity and code reusability.  Naturally any new feature
provides a new way to write bad code, but that is not a fair attack.
So did the old features.
-mark
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