From: "Geo" 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:418c9a53.22076213{at}216.144.1.254...

> > We already touched on templates
>
> FYI it's likely that whatever was discussed in  an introductory class was
> NOT the templates that Paul mentioned.

Templates, like they T thing so you can use any type variable in a function?

> With your stated aim of understanding hacks etc, you probably do not want
> to spend much time looking at classes, and almost no effort on templates.
> Also, you do need to study pointers, despite Paul's well-founded comments
> on how many people avoid them in maintainable code.

Classes are something I want to learn about because they appear to be one
of the more powerful features of C++. Pointers I know I need to learn about
because they are one of the things that go wrong and make it possible to
exploit some programs.

I'm starting to think Ellen may be right though, perhaps I should have
started with C and worked up to C++ just to get a bit more of the history.

Geo.

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