Re: Idle Thought - Compiling with C++

[Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com>]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter () xs4all nl> wrote:
> On 02/12/2013 10:53 PM, Gerald Combs wrote:
> > On 2/12/13 1:17 PM, Jaap Keuter wrote:
> > > On 02/11/2013 06:36 PM, Evan Huus wrote:
> > > > Moving just to a C++ compiler shouldn't cause problems for anybody.
> > > > While C++ isn't technically a superset of C, it is trivial for C
> > > > programmers to avoid the few areas of incompatibility (as far as I
> > > > know there are simply a few more reserved words like 'new' to avoid in
> > > > variable names).
> > >
> > > Add this the the reading list: http://david.tribble.com/text/cdiffs.htm
> > > May not be all applicable (C89 and such) but show what a can-o-worms it can be.
> > > That's probably where that 7k number comes from.
> >
> > When starting on the Qt code I found the Google C++ Style Guide to be
> > helpful: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml
> > Anyone outside of Google probably shouldn't adhere to it strictly but
> > it provides clean, concise descriptions on why they do and don't do
> > various things.
> >
> > We should steal the format for README.developer, BTW.
>
> Interesting read, although...
>
> "We do not use C++ exceptions."
>
> This is somewhat of a bummer.

I think their reasoning is fairly sound on this point, but doesn't
really apply to the way we already use exceptions. Converting our
existing exceptions to C++ equivalents would be a definite win, since
we've already got the mechanisms in place to handle them safely.
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