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Re: Coding standards
Jason Merrill <jason@cygnus.com> writes:
| >>>>> Gabriel Dos Reis <dosreis@cmla.ens-cachan.fr> writes:
|
| > The fact that people insists on applying GNU C Standard rules to C++
| > programs, where obviously they can't apply as they are always puzzles
| > me. I'm not saying we should throw away C rules altogether; we should
| > recognize that there are cases in C++ where they are simply ridiculuous.
| > The case above is one of them.
|
| I assume that "people" means me,
Well, actually I was not getting at you in particular. You know
similar issues surface over and over, and I'm trying to recall us that
after all C rules were designed in the first place for C, not C++
where we have to deal with additional "strangeness".
-- Gaby