On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:24:00PM +0200, Yossi Kreinin wrote:
> Macro expansion or template instantiation or code generation or whatever
> results in all kinds of corner cases. It's nice when int a[]={1,2,};
> compiles although a human probably wouldn't insert that last comma, for
> example. And then the error message in the reinterpret_cast case is utterly
> ridicuous.Good point. I've worked on a system that generates C code. It intentionally does things like that which would be fairly hateful if a human programmer did them, but make sense for machine-generated code. It makes the generator simpler if it doesn't have to worry about dealing with the weird edge cases. Walt
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