Regular expression code implementation review between Tcl vs Python

[Alex Martelli]

Bernard Delmée wrote:

>> _Some_ OS projects, such as Mozilla or KDE, appear to thrive on C++,
>  > I believe, and enforce SOME subsetting effectively.
> 
> In the case of Mozilla, some guidelines are available at
> http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/portable-cpp.html
> I don't know whether this is still enforced, since this document is 5
> years old. And it shows: no templates allowed (hence no STL), no
> exceptions, no RTTI... Phew! Must be very frustrating to follow, but if
> such is the price of portability...

Right -- still, it froze me solid of any inkling of joining the
mozilla team (I wouldn't mind "no RTTI", but...:-).


> Also, using C++ for implementing scripting languages complicates
> interfacing to extensions in the form of dynamic libraries, because of
> the various name-mangling schemes different compilers use. How does
> boost solve that problem, btw?

A Python extension module just exposes "initmyname", it's not hard
to define that one as extern "C".  And the Python headers are careful
to always wrap extern "C" ( ... } around everything if you use C++.
So, NP.


Alex