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Re: ObjC improvements and ObjC++
On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 12:15PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
Some of the details are tricky, yes. But just to state the obvious:
we
are not talking about extensions to C++, and we are not talking about
changing the behavior of cc1plus. We're talking about a new front
end.
Oh -- that wasn't obvious to me! :-) I'd actually rather it wasn't a
new front end; reducing the number of executables rather than
increasing
them was where I was hoping to go: one combined
C/C++/Objective-C/Objective-C++ executable.
That's a good long-term goal. But for the present it's not the way that
ObjC works, and ObjC++ was modeled closely on ObjC.
--Matt