On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckha...@dominolaser.com> wrote: >>> Just guessing, is it legacy, C-with-classes code rather than C++ code >>> perhaps? Haven't looked at wx for a while. Such code typically lacks >>> understanding of exceptions, which are the only way to signal failure >>> from e.g. constructors. >> >> No, wx is C++ through and through. > > No namespaces. No templates but macros. No exceptions. No C++. > > Sorry, I beg to differ. BTW, they say themselves that they tolerate but not > use exceptions, so they actually need two-stage construction if construction > can fail, and for exactly the guessed legacy reasons.
Ah, I think I misunderstood your meaning. By "C-with-classes" I thought you were referring to the practice of OOP in C, and my response was to the effect that building wx requires a C++ compiler, not just a C compiler. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
