Re: mdocml [CVS_2015_11_07] C++ Declaration Guards

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>]

On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 03:34:49PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Joerg,
> 
> Joerg Sonnenberger wrote on Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 03:25:23PM +0100:
> > On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 03:06:30PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> > Seriously, please don't call groff C++. It is not. It is C with classes.
> > It doesn't even use the most fundamental data types like vectors.
> 
> You have a point.
> 
> Fortunately, INSTALL doen't talk about groff at all,
> it only talks about mandoc design goals:
> 
>   One of the chief design goals of the mandoc toolbox is to make
>   sure that nothing related to documentation requires C++.
>   Consequently, linking mandoc against any kind of C++ program
>   would defeat the purpose and is not supported.
> 
> So, i don't think i need to change anything there.

Keep in mind that the purpose of the guards was the *inverse*. They make
it simpler to *use* mandoc from C++ programs.

Joerg
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