> On Jul 12, 2017, at 10:21 AM, Trevör ANNE DENISE via swift-evolution > <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > After quickly reading "SE-0181: Package Manager C/C++ Language Standard > Support" I noticed that as Swift doesn't support "+" sign in identifiers, the > format "cxx" was used (as in "CXXLanguageStandard"), why isn't "cpp" used > instead of "cxx" ?
Several Swift developers came from clang, and clang uses "CXX" almost everywhere. One reason for clang to use "CXX" is that "CPP" is historically also used for the C preprocessor. Using "CPP" for C++ would risk ambiguity. -- Greg Parker gpar...@apple.com <mailto:gpar...@apple.com> Runtime Wrangler
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