On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Ben Elliston <b...@au1.ibm.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 17:43 -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > >> Well, the request was not about the full gamut of C++, but rather >> a subset. And the time of the discussion, I thought the subset >> was quite conservative. Every programming language can >> be abused -- and I don't think I've made an exception for C++. > > GCC would not be the first project (free, or proprietary) that I have > seen attempt to use a subset of C++. I don't think I've ever seen this > succeed. Inevitably, use of certain features crawl in when there is no > cleaner way to achieve something and then precedent can be used as an > argument for further use.
And there certainly are successful projects using a subset of C++ too. Whether you have not seen them is, well, a different matter :-) -- Gaby
