On (29 May 94) Paul Edwards wrote to Keith Richardson...



 KR> btw, do you know much about c++, i am having a problem with scope

 KR> that is driving me up the wall.



 PE> I have working knowledge of C++, and there are several others that

 PE> dial here that do too. Ask away.



 PE> Why are you using C++ instead of C? I would suggest that C is the

 PE> way to go until you're competent with that. And there's a heap more

 PE> C talent here than C++. BFN.



depends what you mean by competent. i've been writing in c for about 8

years, and i don't find it much different to the other procedural

languages that i have used over the years - fortran, cobol, (gulp)

basic, assembler, clist, rexx etc. i can't say that i am completely au

fait with the more exotic areas of pointers as i have had little reason

to delve too deeply there, there always seems to be a more

straightforward approach. i sometimes thing that c programmers,

especially unix people love obscurity for it's own sake. 



oops like c++ though seem to require a shift in attitude, especially

when writing for windows, an event driven environment. thats the reason

for doing it, to get something of a challenge, otherwise i might as well

just buy a product, and save the effort.



i'll put my little problem into locuser, and see if anyone rides in to

the rescue.   (-8



                            keith



... Plasma is another matter.



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