Re: support for C++ ?

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Josh Triplett wrote:
> To the best of my knowledge, nobody involved in the Sparse community has any
> plans to attempt C++.  I also think that a subset of the language capable of
> handling any significant number of common programs would end up containing
> most of the language.  Even basic support for C++ would require large changes
> to the parser and to the Sparse data structures, and that doesn't even count
> the huge can of worms that would open once you start running into interactions
> between Sparse-annotated types and inheritance or overloading.


Indeed.  The gcc people even wrote their own hand-coded C++ parser for 
similar reasons, so I can't see it being an easy integration into 
sparse.  You might as well fork at that point.

	Jeff