Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > C++ at least has typedefs, and in the newer standards, the 'auto' > keyword was repurposed.
Last I checked, C++ had no satisfactory way to express callbacks/functors/listeners/lambdas. That's why Qt came up with a metacompiler to supplement C++'s facilities. No, STL and Boost can't remedy the situation. The main reason was the unfortunate way method pointers were defined in C++. C#'s delegates and Java's anonymous inner classes are something a C++ developer can only dream of (unless something has already been dreamt up in a recent standard). Python, of course, has delegates: that_object.register_callback(self.handle_it) Python doesn't have anonymous inner classes, but it has named inner classes, and that's quite sufficient. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
