On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Ian, > > A comment regarding the GCC-in-C++ idea. In slide 16 you merely answer > > "C++ is too complicated!" > > with > > "Maintainers will ensure that gcc continues to be maintainable." > > C++ has, for example, 12 different ways to represent or invoke a function. > It has no buikt-in typesafe "enum"s. Sooner or later developers will think
C++ enums are certainly improvements over C enums. Below you mentioned dynamic_cast working with enum sets, I don't what you mean by that -- since any attempt to dynamic_cast an enum is rejected at compile time. -- Gaby
