Re: proposed Opengroup action for c99 command (XCU ERN 76)

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>]

Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com> writes:

| On Sep 17, 2005, at 3:33 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > C++98 came before C99, so who diverged from whom?
| 
| You seem to not not how the C++ standard was made.

Thank you very much.

| In fact, it come before C99, like it or not.

Oh really?  What did I say?

| The intention was that C++ would come up
| with a follow on standard that tracked C99, in next revision, as the
| 98 revision just didn't allow for it time wise.

You seem not to have been following development on C++ since late Nov
1997. 

| It is entirely reasonable to pressfit those aspects of C99 that makes
| sense in the confines of the C++ standard, into C++. 

Please be my guest.

| long long is my favorite example of this.

I closely followed all the revisions to the paper that finally got
"long long" accepted for C++0x at the last meeting -- which, BTW, I 
voted for (and encouraged my National Body to do so).

| We wanted to do it, but, the C99 standard
| wasn't done enough for our tastes.

Aha?

-- Gaby