@(#)$Id: README,v 1.2 1997/01/05 01:51:06 leavens Exp $

This directory contains the Larch/C++ interface specification of some of
the operations on the C++ built-in types.  They make good simple examples
of function specification, and also show how the Larch/C++ built-in traits
are used.

You might want to read short.lh first, then charArray.lh,
and then charPointer.lh.  The traits are found in ../../lib
or in the LSL handbook.

We don't specify the interfaces of every type here, because that would
be repetitious.  If you want to see what an intArray.lh would look like,
change all the occurrences of ``char'' in charArray.lh to int.

(By the way, one might be tempted to use C++ templates to specify all of
the different kinds of Pointers, etc. at one fell swoop.
But that would give the wrong interface, because a template
has to be implemented by a template, whereas the built-in operators are
merely overloaded, and not instantiated from a template.)

Of course, we don't implement the stuff specified in this directory.
See the code of your favorite C++ compiler for implementations.