On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Adam Olsen <rha...@gmail.com> wrote: > .. >> Compiling as C++ is too obscure of a feature to warrant uglifying the >> code. > > Malloc casts may be hard to defend, but most of python code base > already has them, there is little to be gained from having these casts > in some places and not others. There are other design flaws that a > C++ compiler may help to catch. Two examples that come to mind are > use of void* where a typed pointer is a better match and declaring > external functions in .c file instead of including an appropriate > header. In most cases keeping in mind compliance with C++ leads to > better design, not to uglier code.
Can't those errors be found simply using appropriate warning flags in the C compiler ? C has stopped being a subset of C++ a long time ago David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
