On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Diego Novillo <dnovi...@google.com> wrote:
> To start *building* in C++, I do not think we need to agree on the > coding guidelines. We are already doing stages 2 and 3, doing stage 1 > is a straightforward next step. I agree with Diego that to start building only with a C++ compiler, we do not need to have approved a C++ coding convention. I also think that the current wiki page is still at brainstorming phase than a sufficiently complete and coherent set. It needs further flushing. For example, I do not believe it makes sense to ban both simple templates (for writing containers) and virtual functions (or to that matter multiple inheritance). There are forms of those features that need to be properly restricted (e.g. it would a real mistake to go banana with the "advanced" template (meta)programming stuff.) Similarly, some of the control/flow and path can be significantly reduced (and bugs fixed!) if simple exception handling is allowed -- think of all those bugs caused by failure to exit early on error_mark_node. -- Gaby
