Re: Yet another newbie

Greg Hudson wrote:
>
> > According to this snippet from the C++ spec., it's *possible* that
> > names with double underscores may conflict with symbols that are
> > part of a C++ compiler's implementation.
>
> Is Subversion written in C++, or in C? As far as I know, the C spec
> only reserves symbols beginning with underscores, not symbols
> containing pairs of underscores.

Actually, I wasn't thinking about the Subversion implementation
language when I asked the question. If Subversion provides a client
library what can be used to build user interfaces, sooner or later
somebody will want to write an SVN interface in C++. At that point,
there could be conflicts because of such symbols in the headers, or
global (private) symbols in the library.

The probability of such conflicts should be quite low, though; so
perhaps we can safely forget about it.

Call it a pedantic practical concern on my part, if you will :-)

    Brane

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