RE: question on the examples for the source/forward/backward incompatible changes

2007-11-27 Thread Farid Zaripov
-Original Message- From: Martin Sebor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Sebor Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 8:29 PM To: stdcxx-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: question on the examples for the source/forward/backward incompatible changes This is an

Re: question on the examples for the source/forward/backward incompatible changes

2007-11-24 Thread Mark Brown
Martin Sebor wrote: Farid Zaripov wrote: Whether these examples should be abstract, or based on C++ Standard Library declarations/definitions? Examples using the C++ standard library classes or functions would be great, but any other sort will, in my opinion, work just as well. The point is

Re: question on the examples for the source/forward/backward incompatible changes

2007-11-24 Thread Mark Brown
Martin Sebor wrote: Mark Brown wrote: [...] Or adding overloads with different behavior to functions that are a better match for calls in existing programs. For instance, if we added an overload for the ostream inserter for wchar_t* that did something different than print the value of the

Re: question on the examples for the source/forward/backward incompatible changes

2007-11-23 Thread Martin Sebor
Farid Zaripov wrote: Whether these examples should be abstract, or based on C++ Standard Library declarations/definitions? Examples using the C++ standard library classes or functions would be great, but any other sort will, in my opinion, work just as well. The point is to highlight the

Re: question on the examples for the source/forward/backward incompatible changes

2007-11-23 Thread Mark Brown
Farid Zaripov wrote: Whether these examples should be abstract, or based on C++ Standard Library declarations/definitions? Since the source incompatible changes involves changes in function/class mebmers prototype, or changes in global data/class data members declaration, or changing the