[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Say Yes to C++ style comments

[Greg Wooledge <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Raahul Kumar (raahul_da_man@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> Regretfully, I now agree. I was just hoping that since more than 95%(maybe 
> 99%)
> use gcc, we could stop catering to the lowest possible denominator. And how 
> far
> back do you want to support old compilers? I think only recent compilers on
> target platforms should be supported, unless you're talking about gcc.

This is precisely the same line of reasoning that led to the World Wide
Web being in the sorry state that it's in today.  "Why support old
browsers -- 95% are using MSIE or Netscape 4.x!"

We have standards for a VERY good reason.  The C standards are various
ISO documents that we refer to as C89, C99, etc.

For Freeciv 1.x, let's stick to standard C, please.  Personally I'd
vote for C89, since it's by far the most commonly implemented version
of the language today.  But I could at least understand a switch to C99.
A switch to gcc-specific extensions would be a bad move.

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