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From: Ben Greear <greear@cyberhighway.net>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 17:29:37 -0700 (MST)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Ben Greear (greear@cyberhighway.net) http://www.primenet.com/~greear
Author of ScryMUD: mud.primenet.com 4444
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On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Greg Munt wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 s001gmu@nova.wright.edu wrote:
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> > what's wrong with linux g++, as far as templates go, btw?
> > haven't had a need for a template class yet, but then I'm not very far
> > into things. :)
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> Linux g++ fails miserably at implementing:
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> templates
> namespaces
> exceptions
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> You can (sometimes) get away with basic uses of these features, but,
> since we are all writing non-basic programs, that doesn't help too much.
> I know that the exception handling is so poor that it has to be turned on
> with a flag.
Don't know about the others, but you can get templates working. The trick
is to include the .C file in the .h file (with #ifdef's of course). Then
include the .h file in your program. It's a hack granted, but it does
work... Besides it's free and ubiquitous!
Ben
> --
> Greg Munt, greg@uni-corn.demon.co.uk "I'm not bitter - just twisted."
> http://www.uni-corn.demon.co.uk/ubiquity/
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