Walter Bright wrote:
Don wrote:
Well, if you ask the question "what's C++'s biggest mistake?" it's
much more difficult. C++'s failure to specify the ABI is enough of a
reason to use C instead, I reckon. It think it's an appalling,
inexcusable mistake -- it guaranteed compiled libraries 20 years later
would use extern(C), not extern(C++). And that's not the worst C++
mistake.
I'd be hard pressed to come up with C++'s biggest mistake. Perhaps it
was failing to address the array => pointer conversion.
That's partially addressed by the ability to define somewhat
encapsulated types like std::vector. Don's suggested lack of ABI is big,
and unfortunately not addressed in C++0x. There are many smaller ones to
follow... two that come to mind: using "<"/">" for grouping and
argument-dependent lookup.
Happy New Year in 2010! Let's make it a great year for D.
Andrei
