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Re: GCC's statement expression extension
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: Re: GCC's statement expression extension
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: 28 Jul 2000 08:53:00 +0200
- Cc: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu, meissner at cygnus dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <10007280137.AA18028@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <20000727183800T.mitchell@codesourcery.com>
Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
[...]
| Just refusing to remove the extensions doesn't solve the problems,
| sadly. These things don't work in C++, and making them work is highly
| nontrivial. Programs using the standard library don't work, because
| of these decisions, and surprising behavior often results without
| programmer knowledge, because these things are in the standard
| library, not user code.
And far more importantly, efforts put in trying to make those
extensions work could be put, productively, in implementing standard
functionalities we're missing. sigh.
-- Gaby
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