Re: Headers and templated classes

[David Sugar]

Ah yes, the mozilla c++ recommendations...

We may choose to keep the ccgnu2 half very clean in large part to enable one 
to build very compact applications with Common C++, but I do not think we 
ever got that anal even in that.  If anything, as practices and compilers 
improve, we will continue to make greater use of the C++ language standard in 
full.  However, the reality is that many broken compilers and poor std 
library/stl implimentations still remain in everyday use so we do have to 
pick and choose what language features we will make use of extensivily and 
which we will not.  I much prefer isolating language features with 
troublesome implimention history rather than excluding them, which is why we 
had the templates library segregated, for example, or extensive facilities to 
built with or without exception handling. 

On Friday 03 January 2003 01:37, Chad Yates wrote:
> I also read that portable-cpp file a while ago and was actually appauled by
> it.  It's my opinion that if compilers should be updated to the standard
> (expected) functionality or new compilers should be found/used.  they
> pretty much said not to use any of C++'s nice features, they may as well
> have said just don't use C++.  Please don't let common c++ go that
> direction.
>
> my 2 cents
>
> ,Chad
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden
> > [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
> > Albert Strasheim
> > Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 6:25 AM
> > To: David Sugar
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: Headers and templated classes
>
> (snip)
>
> > How many commercial compilers are still out there that handle templates
> > poorly? I came across an interesting article, C++ portability guide,
> > from mozilla.org,
> >
> > http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/portable-cpp.html
> >
> > They say to avoid templates. But also to avoid exceptions. (This was
> > in 1998.) So I don't know where you draw the line. Personally, if
> > you're not using gcc 3.2, you deserve to suffer, but I guess my
> > philosophy doesn't work too well for an open source project. :-)
> >
> > It seems C++ templates have been around since 1995. So one has to ask
> > the question: if your compiler doesn't support it after more than 8
> > years, is it ever going to support it?
>
> (snip)
>
>
>
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