Re: Woo hoo ... a whole new set of compiler headaches!! :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Dunstan [mailto:andrew@dunslane.net]
> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 4:29 PM
> To: Dave Held
> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Woo hoo ... a whole new set of compiler
> headaches!! :)
>
> [...]
> I didn't mean people can't or shouldn't make suggestions, just
> that beyond a certain point advocacy seems unnecessary.

Fair enough.

> I suspect most people here are already well aware of the
> advantages and disadvantages of C++.

That's where we disagree.  In my experience, most C++ programmers
know C, but most C programmers only know C++ through second-hand
knowledge.  And this community has already professed a fairly
thorough commitment to C.  I also don't find the rebuttals to the
arguments for migration to be particularly compelling.  In this
case, I wouldn't even ask the core developers to do all the work.
I would volunteer to do a lot of the grunt work in making the code
base valid C++ (and I suspect several others would as well), and
doing the other updates to make the code more idiomatic C++.  I
would only ask them to play along when the style shifts.

> Apologies if I have offended you.

No offense taken.

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