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Subject: Re: C/C++ standards

Author: Jon Dart

Date: 11:09:05 12/16/05

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On December 16, 2005 at 13:05:18, Eugene Nalimov wrote:


>
>(5) Developers are lazy; you should force safer ways of doing something in their
>throat, otherwise they will address some issues only at the latest possible
>moment. Warnings help a lot. Large ISVs meet "safe" string functions
>enthusiastically, main complain is why we are doing that so late.

I disagree in this case; deprecating functions that are used in
practically every bit of C & C++ code ever written is not a good
idea. For new code, sure, encourage some better programming practices.
But there is a huge mountain of existing code and developers who are
working on it are not thrilled to get piles of warnings all of a sudden.

--Jon



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