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Re: Using C++ in GCC is OK
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 01:39:08AM -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Basile Starynkevitch
> <basile@starynkevitch.net> wrote:
>
> > At last, there is a very important issue when switching to C++. What is
> > our "ideal" class hierarchy?
>
> The ideal class hierarchy is independent of the language used. The language
> matters only to the extend that it provides direct support (or lack thereof) to
> express that hierarchy.
I fully agree (and indeed we could have a quite clean class hierarchy
in C, like GTK have), but a transition to C++ could also be the time
for defining more properly our type or class hierarchies.
Cheers.
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