From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 00:07:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] strbuf: use designated initializers in STRBUF_INIT
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kbWQT9n9BAmoHQsZfaEC5GahgOfOVAQGTSGWU1Np8=Nkw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170711000540.4tdytyiit27trmzo@genre.crustytoothpaste.net>

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 5:05 PM, brian m. carlson
<sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 09:57:40PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> It's a pity, though, that you do not suggest something even more useful,
>> such as C++14.
>
> I have tried compiling Git with a C++ compiler, so that I could test
> whether that was a viable alternative for MSVC in case its C++ mode
> supported features its C mode did not.  Let's just say that the
> compilation aborted very quickly and I gave up after a few minutes.

... because we use reserved C++ keywords such as 'new' as variable names?