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From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: friend classes in ada95 (long)
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Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> writes:
> There was some work at grafting interface MI into C++, indeed I believe
> that GNU C++ may still support the "signature" proposal of Russo and 
> Baumgartner. I thought that stuff was neat, and hope something similar
> finds its way into the next Ada.

Signatures are being removed from the latest version of GNU C++.
There is no need to "graft interface MI" into C++ because C++
fully supports interface MI as it stands.