ObjC improvements and ObjC++

[Matt Austern]

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