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From: shap@delrey.sgi.com (Jonathan Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Re: Variables sized objects
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Date: 28 Dec 89 15:11:46 GMT
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In article <1040@dutrun.UUCP> ben@duttnph.tudelft.nl (Ben Verwer) writes:
>This really makes me angry.
>...
>Optimization was useless, throw it out, too bad for the users...

First, the book didn't advocate the approach.  It presented it as an
alternative.

Second, it wasn't optimization that went away.  It was an
ill-considered feature that went away, namely, assignment to 'this'.

Jonathan Shapiro
Silicon Graphics, Inc.