ANSIfy cp/parser.c

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Thu Jan 9 20:43:00 GMT 2003



--On Thursday, January 09, 2003 12:15:29 PM -0800 Mike Stump 
<mstump@apple.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 08:02 AM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>> The path to follow, in my opinion, is to implement C support in the
>> new parser, and C support in the C++ front-end, while still
>> preserving the C front end.
>
> Hum, then I think we (Apple) should contribute Objective-C++, as
> otherwise, if we ever switch to bundling C into the C++ compiler, we'd be
> out an existing language that we want going forward.

Or you might get it "for free"; as far as I know there are no plans to
drop Objective-C, so before the current C compiler could go away, we'd
need Objective-C (as well as plain C) in the C++ front end.

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