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Re: [RFC] type safe trees
- From: "Gabriel Dos Reis" <gdr at acm dot org>
- To: "Richard Kenner" <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Cc: gdr at acm dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:56:03 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [RFC] type safe trees
- References: <10406252150.AA14069@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
- Reply-to: gdr at acm dot org
You Wrote Richard Kenner
> Exactly. Kenner is makeing this issue as if there were a proposal
> to write GCC usinf full C++. Thre is no such proposal.
> There is a useful subset of C++ that is close to C, yet powerful
> enough to free us reinventing wrong wheels all the time.
>
> Right, but a lot of us (hardly just me) are concerned that once we take
> the above first step, it will be inevitable that we will continue
> taking steps in that direction.
But that will happen by conscious decisions, if it ever happens.
-- Gaby