Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: James Kuyper Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c Subject: Re: C/C++ question about dynamic "static struct" Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:53:14 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5081D9DA.6020103@verizon.net> References: <507F380B.2060402@verizon.net> <8q66l9-lkm.ln1@wilbur.25thandClement.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d8fef572ea43a1acd556896aa70d63af"; logging-data="4121"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19pqmY7uCRsqPdQu+MToy6O/dGcZNZtYuM=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:F49IIA0WnFk1/NTQcwhWyOr6mrE= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c++:19110 comp.lang.c:27394 On 10/19/2012 05:29 PM, Juha Nieminen wrote: ... > It's just that in an environment where both C and C++ are equally > viable options (which is most of the environments where you would > want to use either one), most experienced C++ programmers can't think > of any reason why they should limit themselves to C. Because, to be > frank, that would be quite a serious limitation. I'm sure that's quite normal thinking for anyone who would label themselves a "C++ programmer". However, you should not be surprised to find very different thinking among the people frequenting comp.lang.c, where this message is also cross-posted. Anyone bothering to monitor comp.lang.c (and there's a fair number of us) can reasonably be expected to choose the simplicity of C over the complexity of C++ in at least some circumstances. You might question the validity of that choice, but you can't expect such questions to go over very well in that newsgroup.