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From: gjditchfield@watrose.UUCP (Glen Ditchfield)
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Subject: some small questions
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Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 11:45:20 EST
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Can some kind soul tell me how "real" C++ handles these problems? We use a
buggy pre-release here, so I can't just try them.
- Does C++ make some distinction between ++x and x++, where x is of a user-
  defined class? If operator++() is written to return the incremented value,
  C++ could handle x++ by saving x, calling ++, and passing on the saved value.
- Does "void fred( gorf& const g)" make syntactic sense? What I am trying to
  say is that fred uses a reference to the actual parameter, _but_can_not_
  _alter_it_. This is like the CONST parameter attribute that some Pascal
  dialects support.
These questions are not to be interpreted as suggestions for extensions to the
language; I would hate to see C++ crushed by "creeping featurism".
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None of the opinions above are the product of more than 10 second of thought.