Hi, On Fri, 25 May 2012, NightStrike wrote:
> This point of yours should be stressed. Using writing standards of > one language to develop in another language is a fundamentally bad > idea. C and C++ kind of look the same, but they are not: > http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#C-slash > > You wouldn't use the GNU C Coding conventions to write in tcl, and you > shouldn't use them to write in C++. You should just create the GNU > C++ Coding Standards new, and not base them off of the former. That is all nice and fine. For starting from scratch. But we aren't. We have an existing compiler written in a certain style. We have existing people actually working on it and used to that style. We don't want to have a mixture of several different styles in the compiler. I (and I expect many others) don't want anyone working around the latter by going over the whole source base and reindent everything. Hence inventing a new coding standard for GCC-in-C++ (by reusing existing ones or doing something new) that isn't mostly the same as GCC-in-C isn't going to fly. Ciao, Michael.
