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Re: Is ObjC++ still in time for 4.0?
- From: Phil Edwards <phil at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Gregory John Casamento <greg_casamento at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <lars dot sonchocky-helldorf at hamburg dot de>, Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, discuss-gnustep at gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:05:36 -0500
- Subject: Re: Is ObjC++ still in time for 4.0?
- References: <93CA0604-38E1-11D9-9815-0030654C2998@hamburg.de> <20041117224033.7788.qmail@web41601.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:40:33PM -0800, Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> Guys.. This type of outburst is atypical coming from me, but I must say
> this...
>
> Argh!! C'mon... c'mon... c'mon... ObjC++ has been perpetually forthcoming for
> the past two years! What does it take to get Objective-C++ in? It has been
> so frustrating waiting for this. There is *so much software* which would be
> trivial to reuse once this is done.
>
> Please, just get past all of the politics and get it in!
Lots of screaming and yelling about "just do it," but nobody in the ObjC++
community so far has answered the objections brought up the last time.
Politics aren't what's keeping it out. Front-ends aren't popularity
contests; the GCC maintainers aren't going to suddenly start checking in
troublesome code just because X number of potential users really, really
want it. If you want it in 4.0, then start answering questions and propose
cleaner designs than the ones so far.
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the bird, stone beneath soil, the sun behind Urth. Behind our efforts, let
there be found our efforts.
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