Stan Lippman's BLog

What’s Different in the Revised Language Definition? Conversion Operators       Speaking of that grotty feel to the language, having to write op_Implicit to specify a conversion just didn’t feel...

What’s Different in the Revised Language Definition? Delegates and Events       The only change to the declarations of a delegate and a trivial event is the removal of the double underscore, as in...

What’s Different in the Revised Language Definition? Declaring Indexed Properties     In an earlier entry on operator overloading, I showed the following construction, in which the x-coordinate of a managed...

What s Different in the Revised Language Definition? Declaring Properties In the original language design, each set or get property accessor is specified as an independent member function. The declaration of each method is...

What s Different in the Revised Language Definition? Implicit Boxing     Ok, so we reversed ourselves. In politics, that would likely loose us an election. In language design, it means that we imposed a...

What s Different in the Revised Language Definition? Support for Operator Overloading     Perhaps the most baffling aspect of the original language design is its support for operator overloading or rather...

What s Different in the Revised Language Definition? The Declaration of a Managed Enum Type   The original .NET enum declaration is preceded by the __value keyword. For example,   // the original syntax...

What s Different in the Revised Language Definition? The Declaration of a Managed Class Type     In the original language definition, a reference class type is prefaced with the __gc keyword, where the...

What s Different in the Revised Language Definition? Removal of the  _ _ Keyword Prefix One general transformation of the language between the original and revised language design is the removal of the double-underscore...

    Finishing the Hat (^) Once it became clear that support for .NET within C++ represented a distinct programming paradigm, it followed that the language needed to be extended to provide both a first class coding...

The Revised C++ Language Design Supporting .NET -- Part 2 The fundamental design choice in supporting the .NET reference type within C++ is to decide whether to remain within the existing language, or to extend the language, thereby breaking...