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Re: Your patch
- To: mark at codesourcery dot com, martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de
- Subject: Re: Your patch
- From: Mike Stump <mrs at windriver dot com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:26:47 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org, jason at cygnus dot com, nathan at codesourcery dot com
> From: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:18:30 -0800
> Martin> So I think g++ *will* have to support this feature of C99,
> Well, that depends on the C++ committee, but it does seem quite
> possible.
Nay... :-) If something in a later C standard just plugs into C++,
then it'll just be added, if it doesn't, then we should route the
concern to the two committees and let them sort it out. If we want to
be more proactive, we should sort it out based upon what we like, and
what our users like, and implement that, see how well it works, and
propose that to the two committees with our experience with it.
Remember, in an ideal world, they just standardize what _we_ come up
with. :-) The only trick, is to come up with the right answer in the
first place.