On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 08:22:22AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > The authors of cthreads were not trying to bind C++ people. Indeed, > what they were doing was simply ignoring them. That is, they didn't > say "ooh, here's a way to screw C++ people", they simply don't > bother keeping track of the list of C++ reserved words of the week. > Nor should they: they were writing a C header file.
It's no harder or more complicated than making a header file work with both K&R and ANSI, especially now that C++ is standardized. It's just a matter of whether the authors wanted to do so or not. You've expressed your dislike of C++ before[0] [1] [2] (In case others want the references), so your desire not to support it isn't surprising. I just think it's sad, considering that it's both trivial and generally accepted practice. [0] http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/333/2000/4/100/3583718/ [1] http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/332/1999/12/50/2954993/ [2] http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/332/1999/2/100/1842376/ -- I want to go live with the guy who came up with the phrase "Free like beer"
