On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 11:49:05AM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote: > Joseph S. Myers wrote: > > >>I'd be happy to see it (deprecated and then) removed, but I think we'd > >>need > >>buy-in from the C front end maintainers. As extensions go, it's actually > >>not > >>that bad; the semantics are relatively well defined. > > > > > >The min/max expression extension is C++ only, the C front end doesn't have > >it. > > Oh! That does make it simpler, and would seem to eliminate Joe's > objection regarding RMS' extensions.
OK, it appears I was confused; I was lumping them together in my mind with the "conditionals with omitted operands" extension, which does exist in C. I hadn't realized that <? and >? were not in GNU C, because there is a similar rationale: provide a way of preventing arguments from being evaluated twice without forcing the user to specify an explicit temporary variable. I would certainly agree that std::min and std::max are complete replacements in C++. I suggest that any deprecation message point the user to std::min and std::max.