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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Properties
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 17:43:17 -0600
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"Warren" <ve3wwg@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:Xns9E46A316BB94AWarrensBlatherings@81.169.183.62...
> Shark8 expounded in
> news:066181c0-9b80-4c17-a7b4-7ef28a297ea4@e16g2000pri.googlegr
> oups.com:
...
>> The argument could be made that if they were going to spend
>> the time/ energy to use "real C++ types" they would have
>> been better off doing it in Ada where the strong typing
>> would help;
>
> That's academic- but they did use C++.

So far as I know, Win32 is written in C. I'm pretty sure about that, since 
Claw interfaces only using C (Stdcall) interfaces. There are a few recent 
parts of Win32 that have C++ counterparts, but the majority of it was 
designed before there was any such thing as C++ (most of it is a copy of 
Win16, after all). Thus the bizarre notations.

                                            Randy.