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From: "Russ McClelland" <russmc@netbox.com>
Subject: Re: Combining dynamic and static typing
Date: 1997/01/29
Message-ID: <01bc0dec$e9265e20$ed22109b@russ-mc-laptop>#1/1
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references: <5celpp$n3r@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
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organization: Perot Systems
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 comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.objective-c,comp.object
Date: 1997-01-29T00:00:00+00:00
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I think the real problem is that the C++ compiler is really stupid about
types and type checking.  When you create templates, it forces you to
declare what class to use as your template parameter.

Example:

	vector< Object * > v;

Of course this isn't bad in this case, but how about this:

	vector< Object * > v;
	vector< Object * > y( v );

The stupid compiler should already know what type vector y should be,
because it already knows what vector x is, and I'm invoking a copy
constructor.