D as A Better C?
Daniel Murphy
yebbliesnospam at gmail.com
Tue Feb 11 18:44:26 PST 2014
"Manu" <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote in message
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On 12 February 2014 09:06, Mike <none at none.com> wrote:
On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 20:42:26 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
(First off, I hate the name "better C", any suggestions?)
A different name is needed.
> > I don't think a different name is needed, nor do I think it would be a
> > good idea. All
> > that's needed are a few compiler switches to enable/disable features so
> > D can be
> > used on more platforms. GNU g++ does this without giving it a new name
> > (e.g. -fno-
> > exceptions, -fno-rtti, etc...) D can do the same without giving it a
> > new name.
>
> +1, I support this approach. C/C++ programmers are familiar with it, and I
> can
> imagine situations where I might want some features, but not others.
Having one switch does not prevent having finer-grained switches too.
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