* Sven LUTHER said: > > > Agreed. Too bad C++ does not support parametric polymorphism too well. > > > Templates come close, so the hope is not lost. > > But the problem is that templates, nor exceptions or rtti (which are all > > elements of MODERN C++ programming) don't work well enough on the GNU > > platform... > > Is that true, I have heard this agrument often, but is it true, and is it > still > so today ? Is there effort made to fix this ? how far are they ? Yes, it is true. Moreover, AFAIK the g++ 2.7.2.x and egcs differ substantialy in that matter - and that's another problem.
> I just want to be sure this is true before people start using this as argument > without even checking if things still are like that. For what it's worth, egcs is still in active development - thus you shouldn't rely upon it too strongly (yes, potato uses egcs as a standard compiler, but it still has problems) and g++ 2.7.2.x doesn't support the advanced features of C++ very well... marek
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