[Python-Dev] C99

[Sturla Molden]

Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> No-one's proposing to use C99 indiscriminately;

> There's no chance that CPython is going to drop MSVC support in 3.6.

Stinner was proposing that by saying

"Is it worth to support a compiler that in 2016 doesn't support the C
standard released in 1999, 17 years ago?"

This is basically a suggestion to drop MSVC support, as I read it. That is
never going to happen.


Sturla