[Geany-Devel] Let's move to C++98 - Re: Lets move to C99

[Nick Treleaven]

On 01/09/2013 01:08, Lex Trotman wrote:
>> I mean inheritance and virtual functions. I don't think they would pull
>> >their weight in src, unless we were going to use gtkmm for custom widgets.
>
> Agree I can't immediately think of places where inheritance is likely to be
> useful at high level, but thats no reason to ban it.

That's not the reason. The reason is maintainability and ease of 
contribution.