> Well anyone can think anything, but this view is way out of the > mainstream. I do not know of a single large real project using a > large complex language that does not have coding standards that > limit the use of the language. I know this, but I do not understand this. I have worked in reasonably large commercial projects. Admittedly only one had had more than a hundred active developers (which in fact was the one with the most loose coding standards). But as far as I have seen it coding standards are either in the spirit of what I had proposed (emphasizing code quality over language features) or are an over-detailed mess that is a pain in practice and gives no reasonable justification for the imposed limitations. I would like to prevent the later for GCC.
But this is getting off-topic, GCC will probably limit itself to "C with classes" anyway. Which in my opinion is a shame, but such is life. Thomas
