-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/docs/papers/cpp_report/ I wasn't going to post this until I just happend to look up at the concluding comment displayed in my browser. I haven't read these papers other than the introductory comments, and this: [consider the source, see: below] "I don't know about you, but there's something really scary to me about a language where copying state from one object to another is this complicated. By now, I suspect at least a dozen or two programmers have contributed something new to this discussion. If it takes this many programmers to write a simple assignment operator, think how complicated writing code that actually does something meaningful must be! The devil truly is in the details, especially in C++ programming." The Assignment Operator Revisited by Richard Gillam Advisory Software Engineer, Text & International IBM Center for Java Technology-Silicon Valley -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAPHtqH2SF0i7rrGwRAoMGAJ9UG6iKw3amSDn+3DdAUIVa3IBGwQCgnMoF 9XQX30esJUh+6dE0x1v18a8= =RVnA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----