On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 18:43:59 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
On Wednesday, 18 November 2015 at 15:29:04 UTC, ponce wrote:
The idea that you could bring the C++ community to use an
automatic upgrade tool, or to get everyone to follow optional
"Core Guidelines" is optimistic.
What community? Compilers can have pedantic compiler-switches.
C++ needs what Ada has, different profiles for different
scenarios. No problem in having a strict profile as the default
for a compiler.
Oh God, please don't push for PHP-ifying C++. It's already
confusing enough as it is.
For those of you who have never had the pleasure of writing PHP,
lots of PHP code does completely different things depending on
the compiler switches when the interpreter was compiled, the
global config for the host machine, the local config files in the
directory, and the warning level switches at the start of the
code. So much so that it's impossible to understand what a lot of
code does without consulting all of these locations to double
check.
When looking at code, it should be obvious what it does without
consulting outside factors.
