Mike Stump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Sep 17, 2005, at 3:33 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | > C++98 came before C99, so who diverged from whom? | | You seem to not not how the C++ standard was made.
Thank you very much. | In fact, it come before C99, like it or not. Oh really? What did I say? | The intention was that C++ would come up | with a follow on standard that tracked C99, in next revision, as the | 98 revision just didn't allow for it time wise. You seem not to have been following development on C++ since late Nov 1997. | It is entirely reasonable to pressfit those aspects of C99 that makes | sense in the confines of the C++ standard, into C++. Please be my guest. | long long is my favorite example of this. I closely followed all the revisions to the paper that finally got "long long" accepted for C++0x at the last meeting -- which, BTW, I voted for (and encouraged my National Body to do so). | We wanted to do it, but, the C99 standard | wasn't done enough for our tastes. Aha? -- Gaby
