On Friday 30 May 2003 02:49, Peter Simons wrote:
By the way, C++'s namespaces have almost the same deficit and they effectively failed to fulfill their purpose because of it. (I can elaborate this, if anyone's interested in my opinion. I believe much can be learned from C++'s strengths and weaknesses today.)
C++'s namespaces suffer from other serious drawbacks of the language. Of course both languages have much weaker module systems than ocaml. (haha yes, I'm an evil ocaml hacker, too) but you could use namespaces quite well in C++ despite the fact that it sucks. To be honest, I think C++ is the perfect example of terrible design after having it used for many many years, it's hard to change my mind due to that torment. At least I was wise enough to cancel many C++ projects I had on my mind. Cheers, -- Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr> Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara KDE Project: http://www.kde.org www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo Malfunction: http://mp3.com/ariza GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F 88B0 A745 F31B EA0F 7C07 AE16 874D 539C