From: Ellen K. 

Agree 100%.

On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 09:40:00 GMT, John Beckett
 wrote in message
:

>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.

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