Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Any interest in making C++ a real superset of ANSI C?
Message-ID: <1989May28.212614.26146@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <7435@hoptoad.uucp> <1997@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: Sun, 28 May 89 21:26:14 GMT

In article <1997@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
>The solution is to retain the separate tag name space for structs and
>unions, but use the regular name space for class names....

This has always struck me as the obvious solution, but there will undoubtedly
be occasional C++ programs that break if such a change is made.  (There is
no feature so stupid that you won't find it in at least one program within
six months of its release.)

>I'm also of the opinion that if you use C++ features in an aggregate, it
>should be called a 'class'. If it only uses C features, it should be called
>'struct'. I'd even support having the compiler enforce this.

Sounds good to me; in fact, on thinking about it, I'd quietly assumed that
this was the case already.
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