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C++ without forward declarations?


Will C++ ever have Java-like multiple level compiling?

So that we can dump the old model of having to first declare then write
the code?

I find the declaration wastes so much time in coding. It's little more
than something needed for the preprocessor, apart from that it is
ancient junk. It's not needed in Java or other modern OOP languages
(Visual Basic and REALbasic), so why C++?

That's gotta be my biggest gripe with C++. The rest are just stuff I
can live with.

It would be nice if objects had a standardised implementation, also.
Some standard function we could call to get at it's class. Inbuilt
introspection, basically. Java's got introspection.. . I suppose you can
introspect in C++ if you are willing to do bad things to the memory and
read pointers beyond the class's bounds.

Dec 23 '06
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co**********@go oglemail.com wrote:
>
Will C++ ever have Java-like multiple level compiling?
Another whiny jackass to plonk.

Brian

Dec 25 '06 #11

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