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Date:      Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:27:04 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: C++ in the kernel 
Message-ID:  <2979.1193779624@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:48:26 %2B0100." <9bbcef730710300648s4a4162a9x25e5a092111eaab9@mail.gmail.com> 

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In message <9bbcef730710300648s4a4162a9x25e5a092111eaab9@mail.gmail.com>, "Ivan
 Voras" writes:

>I think the more advanced examples here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/K are
>sufficiently diverged from C to make them ugly :)

That page represents a SoC project which was didn't much suit my taste
for language development, but which nontheless was kind of inspiring.

>I think the context of my quote was in favour of this, as long as the
>language remains standard.

But then again, what exactly is "standard" in this context ?

C99 ? or style(9) ?

We already use a C-diallect, all I'm proposing is giving it more
theeth so it can help us.

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