> > Yeah, it's a very useful idiom (don't know if it has a name or not)
> > which I've used zillions of times.
>
> It's certainly worth knowing, but it does feel like it's cheating the
> system
> {:v)Not really. This is not something I have invented. It's used by many major libraries, and its usage is quite mature. And it's guaranteed to work on any reasonably conformant compiler. ------------- Ehsan Akhgari Farda Technology (http://www.farda-tech.com/) List Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ WWW: http://www.beginthread.com/Ehsan ] Ideas that fall under shadows of theories that stand tall, thoughts that grow narrow upon being verbally released.
