On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 10:12:33AM -0500, Frederick Polgardy Jr wrote: > I definitely have to second this. (Would that be: this->second()? I > guess for a std::pair it would be just this->second. Ugh, feel free to > just shoot me at any time. :))
No problem. :-) I've watched C++ grow since it was 'C with classes' in the very early 1980s. Every time a more advanced OO feature was shoehorned into it, the resulting language became more of a mess. It's what finally drove me to look at smalltalk and now python. Objective C is a much better language if you really need the speed of fully compiled objects. But no matter whether we talk about python, objC, eiffel or C++, no matter of linguistic purity is going to outweigh the shee mass of C/C++ code out there. Combine that with the OO mess that is C++ and the seeming ease of the C => C++ learning curve, and you get a mass of awful code that just isn't going to go away. Nevertheless, it means we shouldn't muck with it unless we have to -- and God willing, we won't have to. _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde