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From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Subject: Re: Java Risks  (Was: Ada News Brief - 96-05-24
Date: 1996/06/03
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In article <Pine.GSO.3.92.960602134300.12386C-100000@nunic.nu.edu>,
Richard Riehle <rriehle@nunic.nu.edu> writes: 

|>    There are aspects of C++ that, as orginally  conceived by Dr.
|>    Stroustrup, make very good sense.  The fundamental idea of
|>    expanding the stuct into a class was a stroke of brilliance.

I disagree.  It is the confusion of classes and structs (along with the
confusion of class-as-type-definition and class-as-module) that leads to
absurdities such as the following: 

   class C {
      protected: 
         typedef ... T;
         static T x;  // perfectly legal
         struct S {
            T x;      // illegal: protected "member" T inaccessible inside
         } y;         //    a struct, despite nesting.
   }

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Norman H. Cohen    ncohen@watson.ibm.com