Porting D2 code to D1

Ryan Bloomfield _sir_maniacREMOVE_ME at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 18 11:50:03 PDT 2008


Ryan Bloomfield Wrote:

> Bill Baxter Wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I think preventing the proliferation of vendor-specific language 
> > extensions is considered a feature of the current system.  There is 
> > always "pragma" for non-language extensions.
> > 
> > --bb
> 
> "pragma" won't allow a new keyword.  What if someone comes up with an experimental feature, that later proves useful enough to become part of a standard.  In C and C++, this happens all the time.  C exceptions are a good example.

But alas, C99 doesn't have exceptions.  I was wrong, must of read something wrong.  Ok, how about the "long long" type.  



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