Andrew> This is probably the wrong forum, but I've never understood why
Andrew> that was considered to be the appropriate strategy. Why should
Andrew> C code have a bunch of spurious C++-related fluff added? Surely
Andrew> the correct approach is for C++ code to wrap C includes in
Andrew> extern "C", as the syntax would seem to indicate?
I think it's mostly because C++ is used to compile C code. I know the
Python source code uses this technique. I believe you can compile it with
g++.
Andrew> My guess is that the process started when it was assumed that
Andrew> C++ was the future of C, and eventually everything would just be
Andrew> C++. That is much less clearly the case, now, IMO.
Thankfully. :-)
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