Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:31:59 -0500 From: Pete Becker Organization: Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:31:59 -1000 Message-ID: <201106011031592971-pete@versatilecodingcom> References: <_bxFp.30559$h35.23885@newsfe19.ams2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Problem with array objects User-Agent: Unison/2.1.4 Lines: 19 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-lbsgNngKWPb8E/a+3RteNgtY1iIgmXj0ZRCaJtl22Dj2ifpG+FhiO8E8PiXQw0QQyWkw1XJEZ5ixKST!AWYbuaLZA3sTDbKeTqsPBSvB4gYY0UIjgQrmg0xMbDNtUoceZeWp8lI2GzGhUYAonAd2/g== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1918 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c++:6007 On 2011-06-01 10:22:11 -1000, Paul said: > > The problem is that people can interpret the standards in different > ways, and when the majority of people in a given group come to a > consensus about the interpreted meaning, that is the defined meaning. > But a technical standard should define what it is written to define , > not a clique of people who have a common concencus of its > interpretation. I look forward to seeing your rewrite of the C++ standard with all the problems you perceive fixed so that no reader could possibly interpret it differently from what you intended. When will it be available? -- Pete Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd. (www.versatilecoding.com) Author of "The Standard C++ Library Extensions: a Tutorial and Reference (www.petebecker.com/tr1book)