> In the short term, a partial conversion to C++ gains us nothing. Even > ignoring the bugs inevitably caused by any such project, we'll end up > with a strange mish-mash of styles for a very long time, which instead > of helping anyone can only lead to confusion. I don't see anyone > committing to invest the time in converting even an entire subsystem let > alone the whole compiler. Maybe a subsystem conversion would be a good > thing to try on a branch and then present the results to the community > for evaluation. This would be better than lowering the barrier now for > all sorts of random but uncoordinated conversion efforts.
IMO the killer conversion would be vec.[ch], which is a very clever piece of code but is almost impossible to use without copy-and-pasting existing cases. I think that a proper C++ implementation would be a very convincing argument. -- Eric Botcazou
