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to: Wim Veldhuis
from: Henrik Vendelbo
date: 1995-03-17 10:41:30
subject: Borland Class Libraries

Hello Wim!

Replying to a message of Wim Veldhuis to Jonathan de Boyne Pollard:

 JdBP>> Apparently they mix const and non-const in the ternary operator,
 JdBP>> for   one thing.
 WV> ternary operator ? What do you mean by that ?
a ? b : c

So far the Borland compilers have had the following properties
1) Good user interface
2) Loose compliance to standards (A little rookie mentality)
3) A very forgiving parser. (This isn't good when you want to write solid
code) You get very few warnings about code that may be buggy.
4) A couple of bugs in the code generation that can only be found looking
through the generated code.

 JdBP>> I'm waiting for someone to say that Borland's COMDEF extensions to
 JdBP>> the Intel OMF format (required for templates and virtual function
 JdBP>> tables) are ISO standard. It will happen one day, I'm sure of it
 JdBP>> ... (-: 
Actually there has been talk about making an Industry Standard for debug-info.

Bye, Henrik!

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