On Feb 28, 2006, at 6:14 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 2/28/06, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Fredrik Lundh wrote: >> >>>> My personal goal in life right now is to stay as >>>> far away from C++ as I can get. >>> >>> so what C compiler are you using ? >> >> Gcc, mostly. I don't mind if it's capable of >> compiling C++, as long as I can choose not to >> write any. > > That's getting harder and harder though. Recent versions of GCC appear > to be implementing C98 by default -- at least I didn't get complaints > about declarations placed after non-declarations in the same block > from any of the buildbot hosts...
I don't know whether you meant "C++98" or "C99" in the above, but the default is (mostly) C99, now. If you like, you can still tell it to compile in C89 mode, with --std=c89. C99 contains some of the superficial C++ syntax changes such as // comments and declarations after non-declarations which have long been implemented as non-standard extensions, anyhow, but it's still nothing like C++. As for the question of whether to switch to C++ in 3.0, I'd say probably not, as it's much harder to interface with C++ from other languages than to C. James _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com