Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm saying that classes can have user-defined flags, to save a > >dereference. Or at least, I'm saying that until Dan wanders over > >here and persuades me it's a bad idea. :) > > Dan thinks its a very good idea. :) Almost anything that potentially saves > a dereference's good by me.
Presumably we should have a small, *fixed* number of private bits in the flags word available for use by vtable implementors (ie to stop people getting carried away with the notion that they can steal any bits which do not otherwise appear to have been allocated yet ;-)
