Quoting Pierre Phaneuf to Jerry Coffin, 16 Apr 97
about Rating of C++:
 JC>> Assuming your compiler works correctly, you get an error message.  The
 JC>> syntax in the draft standard makes it clear that if you have an equal
 JC>> sign there, only a zero can follow it.  Anything else is an "Ill
 JC>> formed program".
 PP> This is crazy. Like those so-called "keywords" for casting... Since when
 PP> am I supposed to see "dynamic_cast" and recognise this as a KEYWORD for
 PP> chrissake??? Looks like a damn Pascallian variable name! ;-)) One of
 PP> the suggested "fix" for the "= 0" is to "add" a keyword like this:
 Where exactly are one supposed to use dynamic_cast?
 PP> #define abstract = 0
 PP> So you just do that:
 PP> virtual void fn() abstract
 Personally, I think this way is a kludge which should never have been legal. 
The same effect is much cleaner obtained by declaring the constructor in the 
protected: section of the class.
MVH, 
 Anders Wegge Jakobsen
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