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Re:Herb Sutter confirms no more support for C beyond C90 in ... by bunderbunder on Thursday May 03, 2012 @06:13PM (#3926075)
Touche.

Perhaps I should have said "Supporting versions of C past the point where one could plausibly just pipe the C code through a C++ compiler."

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Re:Herb Sutter confirms no more support for C beyond C90 in ... by adgar on Thursday May 03, 2012 @06:47PM (#3926183)
> Perhaps I should have said "Supporting versions of C past the point where one could plausibly just pipe the C code through a C++ compiler."

Like supporting for-loop variable declarations, which MSVC's C++ compilation mode (/TP) supports, but MSVC's C compilation mode (/TC) does not?

Oh - and what about declaring a variable anywhere other than the start of a scope? Allowed in C++, not in C. Cute.

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