I was just discussing that with one of my co-workers.
I was wondering if that could be used on inline
functions as well as template code. Has any compiler
implemented it yet? I'm still looking forward to
partial specialization and correct implementation of
namespace :(
--- Kent Budge <kgbudge@valinor.sandia.gov> wrote:
>
> Jim Edwards wrote:
>
> > A final thought on this is that in generic
> programming
> > the code is there for all to see. I wonder how we
> > would think about the math library if we had
> access to
> > the code? For this reason, I would like to see a
> > library of template code that has easily
> understood
> > headers and a pre compile object that the compiler
> > understands but is not read by the user. Not that
> I
> > want to keep my code a secret, but I would like to
> > present the end user with only the data they need
> to
> > understand. In line functions should also be
> included.
>
> I've seen at least one implementation of STL where
> the nonpublic
> portions of the headers files were encrypted in a
> way that the
> compiler recognized and could decrypt. My
> recollection is probably
> off, but it seemed to me this was the Rogue Wave
> headers with the
> Borland Visual C++ compiler. So it's been done at
> least once. I
> will be interested also to see how the export
> keyword is implemented
> by different vendors.
>
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