On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 19:10 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: > jdow wrote: > > Do be careful about use of features of the language. Visual C++ 3.0 > > is pretty early on and may have some limitations 5.0 and 6.0 don't > > have. And I am sure current gcc++ is more accurate for C++ and has > > extensions VC++ does not understand. But for beginning work that > > should not be a big problem. > > Yup. When I was taking a C++ class a couple of semesters ago, the Visual > C++ stuff we were using in the labs didn't support friend functions > (which you probably won't get to if it's just an introduction course). I > don't know offhand if Microsoft has pushed an update for this. Visual C++ 6.0 does support this because we saw it when I took my introduction class. -- Jean-Rene Cormier <jrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
