[RFC] type safe trees

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr@acm.org
Fri Jun 25 21:56:00 GMT 2004


You Wrote Richard Kenner
>     Exactly.  Kenner is makeing this issue as if there were a proposal
>     to write GCC usinf full C++.  Thre is no such proposal.
>     There is a useful subset of C++ that is close to C, yet powerful
>     enough to free us reinventing wrong wheels all the time.
>
> Right, but a lot of us (hardly just me) are concerned that once we take
> the above first step, it will be inevitable that we will continue
> taking steps in that direction.

But that will happen by conscious decisions, if it ever happens.

-- Gaby




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