On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Paul Davis wrote:
>
> I just have a very different philosophy about this kind of interface
> than you do Abramo. I see simplicity and stability in explicitly
> enumerating (growing) set of mutator/access functions; you see
> simplicitly and stability in enumerating a (growing) set of macro
> constants and providing a generic set of functions to use them with.
>
> But I'm perfectly willing to listen to the crowd.
>
Paul,
I'm with you - using C++ has taught me how valuable typesafe public
interfaces can be. Anything that can be caught at compile time as opposed
to runtime is a Good Thing.
Karl
> --p
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