[Geany-Devel] Lets move to C99

[Matthew Brush]

On 13-08-17 01:31 AM, Colomban Wendling wrote:
> Le 17/08/2013 04:19, Matthew Brush a écrit :
>> [...] 90% of C++'s crumminess is due to backwards compatibility with
>> C, so I think it should be (theoretically, not socially) possible to
>> gradually transition from one to the other in a project like Geany
>> without too much pain.
>
> I doubt it, C++ is sufficiently different from a C program not to be
> compilable by a C++ compiler in many cases -- even if it is just for
> some implicit casts C++ requires to be explicit (IIRC), and there are
> plenty.  Or maybe it depends what "too much pain" means :)
>
> Also, I doubt it's any kind of sensible either, because good C++ use is
> sufficiently different from C to require large rewrite.  In this case,
> better rewrite everything and don't keep the clumsy code :)
>

I think it wouldn't be too bad. It only took ~1hr IIRC to make Geany 
headers compilable in C++, I expect not much more than 10x that for the 
C sources files. But anyway I don't care, I don't want to port it and I 
don't think anyone is crazy enough to truly propose it :)

Cheers,
Matthew Brush