A FrontEnd in C++?

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:

[...]

| Under this constraint, I hope you'll agree with me that the thing to
| do is pick just one language, and write your compiler using the most
| minimal subset of that language that is practical, also avoiding as
| much of the runtime library as is practical.

I'm afraid I don't come to the same conclusions as you.  

That doesn't mean you're wrong nor am I.  I do have enought concrete,
working examples supporting my "other" approach to believe that it
works in pratice.  Very well :-).

[...]

| I see no reason to expect this situation ever to change.
| Restricting ourselves to a safe subset of C and C only is a sensible
| way to insulate ourselves from these problems as best we can.

It just is *a* way.  There are other alternatives.

-- Gaby