From: firewind <firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Borland/djgpp functions
Date: 12 Oct 1997 18:06:49 GMT
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Aatu Koskensilta <zaphod AT sci DOT fi> wrote:
> Most C code does (actually, there is very few C programs that won't compile
> as C++ program with no modifications at all), because C is a subset of C++.

<nitpick>
C++ is a superset of C.
</nitpick>

> However, your program uses none of the C++ specific features (such as the
> standard (perhaps some day?:)) io objects cout/cin etc.) and is thus a C
> program. In a sense it also is a C++ program.... I think it's more convinient
> to speak of C programs when none of the C++ specific features are used...

Because such programs are C programs... I think you can only call a program
C++ if it uses features specific to C++. Some things, too, can -only- be called
C programs and not C++ programs; to wit:

int main(void)
{
	return(6 / /* comment */ 3);
}

which will compile beautifully as C (well, gcc would require -ansi -pedantic)
but not as C++. I recall seeing more (and more real-world; how many people
actually stick a comment after the divide sign like that? :) examples of this
in comp.lang.c.

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