In article <mailman.1666.1281075732.1673.python-l...@python.org>, David Cournapeau <courn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes, there are a few corner cases where valid C syntax has different > > semantics in C and C++. Â But, they are very few. Â Calling C++ a superset > > of C is essentially correct. > > This is only true if you limit yourself to C89 (as python seems to > do). If you start using C99 (and lot of people do, if only because > they don't realize it because gcc is quite relax about it), then > almost no non trivial C code is valid C++ in my experience. I'm not following you. If anything, C99 makes C closer to C++. Can you give me some examples of valid C99 which is not also valid C++?
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