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From: leech@unc.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
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Subject: Re: const, reference "this" revisited ???
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Date: 27 Feb 88 03:19:53 GMT
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In article <23134@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> serge@berkeley.edu (serge) writes:
>	This issue (and others) could be addressed if the method
>definition/invocation syntax was
>		method(x, y, z ...);
>instead of
>		x.method(y, z ...);

    Except you can no longer distingush a global function
	func(complex,int)
and a member function
	complex::func(int)
    The overloading mechanism could not distingush these, nor could the
programmer.

    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
    ``After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be
      resting yourself as to see all the other fellows busy working.''
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