While your point is taken, it's hardly considered "C++" anymore. Many
C-compilers have adopted many such useful features.
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> diff -r -u parrot-current/classes/perlnum.pmc parrot-andy/classes/perlnum.pmc
> void set_integer (PMC* value) {
> -// SELF->vtable = &(Parrot_base_vtables[enum_class_PerlInt]);
> + /* SELF->vtable = &(Parrot_base_vtables[enum_class_PerlInt]); */
> SELF->cache.num_val = (FLOATVAL)value->vtable->get_integer(INTERP, value);
> }
-Michael