Fair cop. I recant.. lets go upscale: 1) Templates ( from these we can construct your generalised lists etc anyway )
2) ability to #inline any function or method ( well some times those pieces of flint can prove useful :) ) On 12/10/06 19:40, "Joe Huber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 2:17 PM -0400 10/12/06, Charles Yeomans wrote: >> And if people feel the need to borrow from other languages, let's >> show some imagination and look beyond C... > > Yes, let's take the language upscale if we're going to propose changes. > > Focusing on rudimentary things like increment operators and function > pointers is like living in the stone age, programming in ASM and > allocating variables to registers. Modern languages allow us to move > beyond those issues to architectural things which are more important > and can make a bigger difference. > > eg Adding the dictionary class to RB made a much bigger difference to > RB's abilities than an optimized Increment ever could hope to. > > Templates or a generalized List class are two of my favorite wishes. > > Regards, > Joe Huber > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives of this list here: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
