I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

[Marcus Meissner]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:24:26AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> 
> >"Subhobroto  Sinha" <subhobrotosinha at rediffmail.com> writes:
> >
> > 
> >
> >>However, soon many of his elves found out that technologies like
> >>MFC, WTL, ATL, COM, DCOM, COM+ and other MS bloops were getting too
> >>complex to be implemented using plain C, and thus developments in
> >>those areas were soon in limbo.
> >>
> >>But that could be solved using yet another language called C++ - if
> >>only Santa would let it be.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >You don't need Santa's permission for that, just go ahead and
> >implement DCOM in C++ and show us how easy it is. I suspect you will
> >quickly realize that the complexity of the problem does not come from
> >having to explicitly pass the this pointer around...
> >
> > 
> >
> While You are, no doubt, right about the complexity problem, I fail to 
> understand the "no C++ in the wine source tree" rule.

> We are meant to pick the best tool for the job. While I 100% agree with 
> "no C++ in the core Windows DLLs" rule, I think some other areas make 
> more sense to use C++ than C. I have not been able to find the prior 
> discussions about this matter, though I know we had them.

Read what Alexandre wrote. To paraphrase:

"Feel free to write it in C++ and submit it when you are done."

Ciao, Marcus

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