Re: C++ has Boost libraries, C?

jacob navia wrote:
Mark McIntyre a écrit :

For reference, what you've done here is create an object. A simple
one, but still an object.

Of course. But there are no classes, no inheritance, no complications.
This is an object in the C sense: transparent, without any added
constructors, destructors, whatever.

I think C must remain at this level. By introducing operator overloading
(something Fortran 90 supports also for instance) the language remains
simple as it is now, albeit with more expressivity (I hope this is
the right word )

Interesting, so you advocate extending the language with something that
boils down to syntactic sugar while dismissing the one feature
(constructors and destructors) that enables C++ to what C can't (RAII).

--
Ian Collins.
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