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From: dbuck@superior.carleton.ca (Dave Buck)
Subject: Re: Apology to Dave Buck
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In article <4e0em3$k5r@citadel.evolving.com>,
Todd Blanchard <tblancha@evolving.com> wrote:
>I want to publicly apologize for the statement:
>
>>You need to do a lot of reading to clear up your misconceptions
>>about C++ before you say much more.  None of your examples hold water.
>
>It was condescending and I didn't intend it to be.  Sorry Dave.

No problem.  I also stand corrected on a statement I made about const
member functions in C++.  The declaration of const member functions
has no run-time effect and is only a compile-time check.  I still
argue that it breaks encapsulation, but I now understand them a bit
better.

Thanks

David Buck
dbuck@ccs.carleton.ca

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