Re: [boost] boost::nil

From: jk_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-06-08 12:39:39

8 Jun 2001 18:05:46 +0400 Chris Little ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ:
>It is a design flaw but it has been around a long time.  nil is Pascal's
>NULL.  All of the Mac OS's system interfaces were originally defined as
>Pascal and nil has been in the system headers since 1984.

There is terminal output library in Unix named "curses", and this curses
defines in it's headers macros "erase", "clear" etc. It is nearly system
library, and that macros are not making very big troubles in despite of
presence of STL containers methods erase, clear etc.

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jk