On Friday 22 March 2002 19:40, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 12:55:00AM +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > Besides, struct etc. are their own namespace, aside from the normal
> > variables/functions namespace. No need for any pre/postfix at all.
>
> Until someone wishes to embed the public headers into a C++ program.
> Or finds themselves forced to compile parrot for their platform on a C++
> compiler.
>
> I'm not sure how likely the latter is. The former we need to take care of
> (alone with all the #ifdef __CPLUSPLUS; extern "C" { shenanigans)
And I'd be surprised if the latter worked without a lot of hackery. (Not
that it's not a valid scenario. I've worked on a couple projects like that.)
Is this something we should at least look at?
--
Bryan C. Warnock
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
