[Python-Dev] Baffled by PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords modification

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Feb 11 00:46:20 CET 2006


Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> FWIW, Annex D also defines these features as deprecated:
> - the use of "static" for objects in namespace scope (AFAICT
>   including C file-level static variables and functions)
> - C library headers (i.e. <stdio.h>)

Things like this are really starting to get on my groat.
It used to be that C++ was very nearly a superset of C,
so it was easy to write code that would compile as either.
But C++ seems to be evolving into a different language
altogether.

(And an obnoxiously authoritarian one at that. If I want
to write some C++ code that uses stdio because I happen
to like it better, why the heck shouldn't I be allowed
to? It's MY program, not the C++ standards board's!)

Sorry, I just had to say that.

Greg


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