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From: mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Friend specifier, considered
Summary: multiple export
Message-ID: <352@babbage.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: 16 Sep 88 13:52:42 GMT
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classes as a scope mechanism are tied closely to classes as a data structure.
in some languages scopes and data are uncoupled, e.g. ada packages which
export type definitions.
the vector/matrix problem might be a(void)ed if a class could export both
structures.