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From: "Jed" <jehdiah@orbitway.net>
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Subject: Re: Why use C++?
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:00:28 -0500
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Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Jed writes:
>>> When have you last thought about the size of the components
>>> of std::string, of of a vtable?  Why, then, is there a
>>> pressing need to think about the sizes of int types?
>>
>> You know that that was a very bad comparison. Completely invalid.
>
> On the contrary I think this comparison is perfectly valid. ]

Who cares what you think?