[Python-Dev] Baffled by PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords modification (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Feb 12 00:02:32 CET 2006

Greg Ewing wrote:

There are already differences which make C and C++ annoyingly incompatible. One is the const char * const * issue that appeared here.

Of course there are differences. C++ has classes, C doesn't. C++ has function overloading, C doesn't.

C++ has assignment from char** to const charconst, C doesn't. Why is it annoying that C++ extends C?

Another is that it no longer seems to be permissible to forward-declare static things,

Not sure what you are referring to. You can forward-declare static functions in C++ just fine.

when everybody has switched to C++, and compatibility with C is no longer required.

Yeeks, I hope not! The world needs less C++, not more...

I'm sure the committee waits until you retire before deciding that compatibility with C is not needed anymore :-)

Sure you can still use stdio, and it is never going away (it isn't deprecated). However, you have to spell the header as

#include and then refer to the functions as std::printf, std::stderr, etc. Which makes it a very different language from C in this area. That's my point.

That future version of C++ to be published in 2270, yes, it will be different from C, because the last C programmer will have died 20 years ago.

Regards, Martin

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