Re: Name change to MSDN C++/CLI column
Andrew Browne wrote:
The online version of the page you're quoting from here was updated
some time ago. You can find it at
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xey702bw(vs.80).aspx
Among other relevant changes, it now contains the sentence:-
"The new syntax is not part of the ISO/ANSI C++ standard, but is a set
of extensions to C++ standardized under the Ecma C++/CLI Standard."
That is only one of many links.
There are still many others that contain implications to the contrary.
In fact, one of the reasons I did not add the links to my quotes here
is because what was shown in the MSDN documentation that came with
Visual Studio 2005 and what was shown online are different. Even in
some of my communications in USENET, people representing Microsoft have
stated "but C++ is evolving to include .NET".
I would hate to have to go scrounging around MSDN to supply proof that
Microsoft has created misleading documentation. If they have done it
once, once is enough. And let us not kid ourselves. The fact they
were calling a column "Pure C++" when they knew it was quite the
contrary is sufficient to be regarded as guilty.
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