Re: C++ Envy

[eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)]

In article <D2xBAz.9pG@world.std.com> bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) writes:

 > True, but this seems like a minor point to me.  No language can protect
 > against blatantly irresponsible coding tricks.  Languages should instead
 > try to prevent problems that happen by accident, as most bugs do.  How
 > could you accidentally use the trick being discussed?

   Because it was in a .h file that was in a #include in some .h file
you included?

   The problem of conflicts between defines in a C or C++ library is a
serious one, and the convention of all defined names being all upper
case is a help, but in no way solves the problem.

--

					Robert I. Eachus

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