Andreas Vox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| I've been a happy Java Programmer for the last 7 years so I "missed" (*)
| all this new C++ stuff like templates, namespaces, exceptions and rtti.

Just by looking at java I feel strait-jacketed.

| A decent language shouldn't have a preprocessor, pointer arithmetic, 

Then don't use them. And as you see in LyX we use these as little as
possible.

| automatic datatype conversion

Ha. java does this as well.

| commutativity of array access

int a[4];
a+3 == a[3] == 3+a

Yeah it can be confusing. (So don't use it. But know of it so that you
can recognize it)

| or a 
| turing-complete template system. 

One of the greatest strengths of modern C++.

| BTW, does anyone know the type of the expression
>
|     bind(&Impl::finishedGenerating, this, _1, _2)
>
| where Impl is PreviewLoader::Impl ?

Why would you need it?

| Ok, I better stop now. 

Loosing battle on this list.

The only thing I miss from Java is the nice libraries (with the crappy
api's)

-- 
        Lgb

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