In article <JASON.95Feb1115205@phydeaux.cygnus.com>,
jason@cygnus.com says...
>
>>>>>> Fergus Henderson <fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU> writes:
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>> Protected inheritance was already allowed in the ARM!
>
>Not in my copy of the ARM (May, 1991 reprint).

There is an appendix to the 2nd edition of T.C++P.L. available
at ftp://ftp.std.com/AW/stroustrup2e/new_iso.ps

>>>>> Fergus Henderson <fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU> writes:

> Protected inheritance was already allowed in the ARM!

Not in my copy of the ARM (May, 1991 reprint).

Jason

david@atl-intl.com writes:

>Is there something somewhere that lists all the changes (actual and expected)
>since the ARM?  In the case in question, no source of which I was aware
>(including the compiler, of course, which I tried) indicated that protected
>inheritance was allowed. I would be very happy to read whatever books
>or documents have the changes.

Protected inheritance was already allowed in the ARM!

But Stroustrup's "Design and Evolution of C++" has a list of the
changes between the ARM and mid-1994.

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Fergus Henderson - fjh@munta.cs.mu.oz.au
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