From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from scc-mailout-kit-02.scc.kit.edu (scc-mailout-kit-02.scc.kit.edu [129.13.231.82]) by fantadrom.bsd.lv (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 39ad7e26 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 09:06:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from asta-nat.asta.uni-karlsruhe.de ([172.22.63.82] helo=hekate.usta.de) by scc-mailout-kit-02.scc.kit.edu with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (envelope-from ) id 1Zv48U-0007VK-Vk; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 15:06:31 +0100 Received: from donnerwolke.usta.de ([172.24.96.3]) by hekate.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1Zv48U-0002C0-TW; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 15:06:30 +0100 Received: from athene.usta.de ([172.24.96.10]) by donnerwolke.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1Zv48U-0005Iz-Mj; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 15:06:30 +0100 Received: from localhost (1031@localhost [local]); by localhost (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id d9c117ad; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 15:06:30 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 15:06:30 +0100 From: Ingo Schwarze To: Peter Bray Cc: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: mdocml [CVS_2015_11_07] C++ Declaration Guards Message-ID: <20151107140630.GD10393@athene.usta.de> References: <563D700F.9090001@yahoo.com.au> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <563D700F.9090001@yahoo.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Hi Peter, Peter Bray wrote on Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 02:29:19PM +1100: > I'll leave it to the developers and maintainers to choose the > appropriate solution for their code base. I just deleted them: KISS. They have never been used for anything in more than six years and are apparently becoming a portability headache. Besides, i want to strongly discourage any use of C++ in software documentation. Getting away from C++ is one of the chief design goals of the mandoc project. Yours, Ingo -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv