Re: Query regd. "Modern C++ Design" program.
"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no> writes:
* David Abrahams:
"Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)"
<SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> writes:
A cure that's slightly different is of course to use some other
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I like the original compile time assert much better than the one
above).
Thanks for being so flattering, but even if you are trying to make a
<snip>
read this characterization of it.
Thanks, Andrei.
For the record, work on Loki was concurrent with a great deal of work
<snip>
picking up and applying Andrei's ideas.
Of course I didn't write that, none of it, but it's not annoying at all
to have such a wile and personal characterization attributed to me, when
the original, about a very different matter, is quoted for comparision:
you're forgiven. ;-)
I'm also completely baffled. According to the newsgroup history you
did write the very first paragraph and neither Andrei nor I attributed
anything to you because Andrei left out the attribution and I merely
quoted him. Is someone using your name and email address to post to
this NG?
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