Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!gwyn@brl-vld From: gwyn%brl-vld@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: extended C with classes -- is this for sale yet? Message-ID: <3441@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 25-Jul-83 20:32:36 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.3441 Posted: Mon Jul 25 20:32:36 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Jul-83 23:44:07 EDT Lines: 21 From: Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)To the best of my knowledge "classes" are not part of any UNIX release, and indications so far have been that the C language will NOT be officially extended in this way. Classes are implemented by an additional preprocessor invoked if the #class keyword is found by cpp. It is rather easy to adapt the existing cc & cpp to run the classes preprocessor, which used to be available from its author (Bjarne Stroustrup). I don't know whether he wants to distribute it or not; presumably if he does he can post it to net.sources. There are two Bell Laboratories Computing Science Technical Reports on this subject: CSTR No. 84 "Classes: An Abstract Data Type Facility for the C Language" and CSTR No. 90 "A Set of C Classes for Co-routine Style Programming", both by Bjarne Stroustrup.