Re: [PATCH] Choose syntax

[Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi kde org>]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:26:03AM +0300, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> > > static const int MAX_ENTRY_LEN = 40;
> > >
> > this is c++ (well, except that const implies static, i heard). maybe
> > its in newer c standards, too, but i'm not sure we want to depend on
> > them.
> 
> It is a good practice.
>
sure. the preprocessor is evil.

> Do you say that older compilers won't grok this ?
>
yes. where older might be pretty recent non-gcc. if we depend on gcc,
this is hardly an issue; i think it groks it for a decade or something.

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