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- Subject: Re: [AD] 4.3 error handling
- From: Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 23:34:10 +0200
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 22:05 +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> > But Allegro doesn't use C++. Since Allegro is going to use C (AFAIK),
> > or at least expose a C-only API, it wouldn't be able to properly
> > throw real exceptions.
>
> Sorry for a bit of a tangeant here, but what's the reasoning for this? I
> can't think of any compiler that doens't support C++ these days, so why the
> desire to keep the API all in plain C? It's not the 90's any more, and the
> API could be so much nicer if it was properly encapsulated in an OO fashion!
>
C and C++ are two different languages. Allegro is a C library. So I'm
not sure what you want to say. E.g. I use Allegro with C and Python - if
it would require C++, I would not use it anymore.
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Elias Pschernig