Using C++ in GCC is OK

[Robert Dewar]

Mark Mitchell wrote:

> Is there anyone who would like to volunteer to develop the C++ coding
> standards?  I think that this could be done as a Wiki page.  (If nobody
> volunteers, I will volunteer myself.)  Whoever ends up doing this, I
> would urge the rest of us not to spend too much time in the C++
> coding-standards bikeshed; we're not going to win or lose too much
> because we do or do not permit default parameters.

Can't we find a set of C++ standards that we could piggy back off,
rather than developing from scratch?