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Re: Using C++ in GCC is OK


> Well anyone can think anything, but this view is way out of the
> mainstream. I do not know of a single large real project using a
> large complex language that does not have coding standards that
> limit the use of the language.
I know this, but I do not understand this. I have worked in reasonably large 
commercial projects. Admittedly only one had had more than a hundred active 
developers (which in fact was the one with the most loose coding standards). 
But as far as I have seen it coding standards are either in the spirit of 
what I had proposed (emphasizing code quality over language features) or are 
an over-detailed mess that is a pain in practice and gives no reasonable 
justification for the imposed limitations. I would like to prevent the later 
for GCC.

But this is getting off-topic, GCC will probably limit itself to "C with 
classes" anyway. Which in my opinion is a shame, but such is life.

Thomas



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