23 Jul
2006
23 Jul
'06
10:07 p.m.
On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:26:55 -0700, Jeff Garland <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote:
The identifier is a interesting.
It's much more than that! I did run and see it (proud to be the first downloader of version 0.2.1 :-)) and I'm enthusiastic. Too many times I've realized I needed something to stem the pervasive danger of Win32's all-is-a-dword typedefs and postponed the issue. This is one of those lovely pearl which combine elegance and usefulness in a way which happens to be obvious only once you have seen it. That's the Euclid algorithm of the type system! :-) About the name, isn't "identifier" meant as "something which gives an identity" rather than as "C++ grammar identifier"? -- [ Gennaro Prota, C++ developer for hire ]