Hi Akim. On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Akim Demaille wrote:
> > Alternatively, we could poll at help-bison and might get an answer faster. > > Yes, but what's the size of the poll? I just checked the subscriber list and it's 260. While that's smaller than the number of people who receive NEWS, it would be a decent initial poll. By the way, I'm not able to look at the subscriber lists for bug-bison and bison-patches. Why is that? > > > Yet C++03 would be better ;) > > > > Why don't we discuss that again when at least 2.5 is released? Some > > cherry picks are already painful. > > Well, I would also like to release 2.6 not too late, so I would wait for 2.6 > to be released first. Ok. > > So, if we're not careful about our C99 usage, we > > might be making more work for whenever we switch to C++03. > > I'm not sure it would require a lot of work. Ok, then I'll begin using C99 where it seems helpful (but not in branch-2.4.2). I should put together a note for README at some point. Thanks.
