May 2004 - Posts

• A Reader Bleakly Asks About the Future of C++ within Microsoft

  A reader writes Sender: Brian Braatz ===================================== I posted the following to the boost email group and receieved the following response. I was wondering if you had any comments or thoughts on this. I am personally concerned that Read More... Posted Friday, May 28, 2004 9:53 AM by slippman | 11 Comments

• C++/CLI: System::String^, std::string, and "a string literal"

  Without thinking too hard I had held the following precept: std::string is to ISO C++ as System::String^ is to C++/CLI. Or, to give the idea a political tint, I thought of the two string abstractions as separate but equal library class types. Therefore, Read More... Posted Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:11 AM by slippman | 4 Comments

• Yes, Value Types Have No Destructors

  A reader comments Sender: Joe Pacheco ===================================== re: Integrating Dispose and Finalize into the Language What about destructors for value classes? Was it considered when you did the language design? To become truly usable they Read More... Posted Thursday, May 13, 2004 9:24 AM by slippman | 3 Comments