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From: pds@quintus.uucp (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: C++ (Lattice) -- First impressions...
Keywords: C++,review
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Date: 2 Nov 88 00:29:05 GMT
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In article <16220@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve) writes:
About Lattice C++:
>> > ALL the Exec and Intuition structures are now OBJECTS, with associated
>> > methods to manipulate them.
>> if you were starting from scratch in C++ you'd probably hide all that
>> data and write accessor functions to access it.
>I'm not entirely convinced of this yet.  Accessor functions mean a lot of
>overhead

Couldn't you get around this by making the accessors macros?  As I
recall, Stroustroup's (sp???) book has several examples of this sort of
thing.  So you get clean, safe, and efficient code.  What more could
you ask for?

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