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[Python-Dev] Baffled by PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords modification

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Feb 11 22:48:05 CET 2006 
Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> That future version might get published in 2270,

There are *already* differences which make C and C++
annoyingly incompatible. One is the const char * const *
issue that appeared here. Another is that it no longer
seems to be permissible to forward-declare static things,
which has caused me trouble with Pyrex. That's not
just a deprecation -- some compilers refuse to compile it
at all.

Personally I wouldn't mind about these things, as I
currently don't care if I never write another line of
C++ in my life. But if e.g. Pyrex-generated code is to
interoperate with other people's C++ code, I need to
worry about these issues.

> when everybody has switched to C++, and compatibility
> with C is no longer required.

Yeeks, I hope not! The world needs *less* C++, not more...

> Sure you can still use stdio, and it is
> never going away (it isn't deprecated). However, you
> have to spell the header as
> 
> #include <cstdio>
> 
> and then refer to the functions as std::printf,
> std::stderr, etc.

Which makes it a very different language from C in
this area. That's my point.

Greg
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