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From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: C++ Productivity
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>tseaver@NeoSoft.com  (Tres Seaver) writes:
>Actually, it's not so obvious.  If the default were changed, the cost
>of upgrading the old code base is negligible, and, indeed, an automated
>conversion tool would be easy to write.

I don't think an automated conversion tool would be so easy.
In C++, the preprocessor makes writing automated conversion tools
somewhat harder.

-- 
Fergus Henderson - fjh@munta.cs.mu.oz.au
all [L] (programming_language(L), L \= "Mercury") => better("Mercury", L) ;-)
