> So, from your perspective, a request > > to use (a subset of) C++ for compiling GCC > > is hardly detailed technical issue.
Actually, I don't consider an issue of what programming language to use as a "detailed" issue, but rather a pretty fundamental one. It can be a purely *technical* issue (though not a "detail") if it doesn't touch on a philosophical issue, but it *isn't* if it does, as in this case. Similarly, which of two possible algorithms to use *can* be a *detailed* technical issue, but stops being one if one of those two choices has a patent issue.
