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From: gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Any interest in making C++ a real superset of ANSI C?
Message-ID: <26575@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 26 May 89 16:49:13 GMT
References: <7435@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
Organization: University of Waterloo [MFCF/ICR]
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In article <7435@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
> [ complaints about "struct x { /*...*/ };" ===
> "typedef struct x { /*...*/ } x;" ]
>
> Is everyone writing C++ code that depends on this behaviour?
> Or are people avoiding it?  Is there any chance that the language
> definition will be changed to eliminate it?  Howabout compiler
> warnings for depending on it?

I always avoid this, in the hope that the language will someday be changed to
do things the old way.  I fear that it is a vain hope, however.

 -Guy Middleton, University of Waterloo		gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu