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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Are  ::*  .*  and  ->*  healthy in 2.0 ?
Keywords: ::*
Message-ID: <9354@alice.UUCP>
Date: 14 May 89 13:31:38 GMT
References: <189@mole-end.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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In article <189@mole-end.UUCP>, mat@mole-end.UUCP (Mark A Terribile) writes:

> Would someone in the know tell me if pointer-to-member will be really
> healthy in 2.0 ?

They will be much healthier than in 1.2; that part of the compiler
has undergone a major overhaul.  There's a paper in the 1988 Usenix
C++ proceedings by Lippman and Stroustrup that describes, in part, 
the incredibly hairy stuff they had to do to get pointers to members
right.  It is mind-bogglingly difficult.
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				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com