Re: FYI: default %printer/%destructor

[Hans Aberg]

On 21 Nov 2006, at 00:08, Joel E. Denny wrote:

> > > C++ offers much more than just constructors and destructors for  
> > > semantic
> > > types in parsers.
> >
> > I am not just sure exactly what, I mean, if one is not going to  
> > use C++ OO. I
> > mean, the template system does not seem worth the effort. :-)
>
> Why can't you use C++ OO?  Pointers to non-POD's work fine.   
> Polymorphism
> works fine.  The rest of your program (besides the parser) can use
> non-POD's without restraint.  There's also the C++ standard library.

If one should program in what essentially is the C-subset, why not  
use C instead? :-) In fact, if a GC, other than a reference count  
should be implemented, C++ OO is just a bother (though it may change  
in a later version of C++).

As for my program, the parser builds dynamic iterated polymorphic  
objects, and in cmopbination with a reference count, that is very  
convenient.

  Hans Aberg