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From: "Johan Henriksson" <jhe AT realsoftware DOT cjb DOT net>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Merry Christmas !!!
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 00:33:11 +0100
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from: Johan Henriksson, leadprogrammer @ www.realsoftware.cjb.net
"The individual should be praised for it's struggle, the society
condemned for it's actions" - me 1997        #12035895
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>>But who cares about standards when not even GCC supports
>>the whole new [C++ standard]...?
>>Oh, and C is and will be a better standard so use C instead ;)
>GCC doesn't support everything in the C99 standard either, and C99
>was approved soon after ANSI C++ was.  Many complain that the GTK+

True. But as C is going in direction of keeping low-level, we C-users
won't get that load of non-standard approaches upon us as the CC-guys.
That was my point. I don't think C99 adds too much to the standard.
I must say I'm even unhappy with the new main()-declaration :(

>approach to namespacing and polymorphism (package_class_method())
>is awkward to type.


I think it looks quite good, even though they could have made it a lot
cleaner.