On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:22:37 +0000 (UTC) Sturla Molden <sturla.mol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > The Visual Studio team has publicly stated they will never support C99, > > so dropping C89 blindly is going to alienate a big part of our user base > > unless we switch to C++ instead. I'm fine with trying to pull in C99 > > features, though, that we can somehow support in a backwards-compatible way > > with VS. > > So you are saying that Python should use "the C that Visual Studio > supports"? I believe Microsoft is not competent to define the C standard. > If they cannot provide a compiler that is their bad. There are plenty of > other standard-compliant compilers we can use, including Intel, clang and > gcc (MinGW).
Other C compilers don't support all of C99, AFAIR. We sometimes get such bug reports from e.g. AIX users. I'd be all for accepting C99, ideally. But we must care about our users' constraints. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
