RE: [Dev-C++] C and C++ sintax restrictions in Dev-C++

[Ioannis V. <iv...@at...>]

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> From: dev...@li...
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf
> Of Andrι Macαrio Barros
> Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 8:54 PM
> To: Dev-Cpp-Users
> Subject: [Dev-C++] C and C++ sintax restrictions in Dev-C++
>
>
> Dear Users,
>
> --->	Some students are using a mix of commands and features like:
> 	/* 		and 	//
> 	getchar() 	and 	cin.get()
> 	<stdio.h> 	and	<iostream>
> 	<stdlib.h>	and 	<cstdlib>
> 	printf	and 	cout
> 	scanf		and	cin
> 	.c		and 	.cpp
>
> "A"---> 	I´ve tried some enable/disabe options inside
> 		"Options->Compiler Options->C/C++ Compiler",
> but couldn´t
>       	inhibt the students to write codes mixing the commands.


Of course you couldn't since they belong to the C subset of C++ (that is
they are valid C++).



>  		The corrections are still by hand. Sometimes is
> difficult
> 		to explain for some guys that come with vicious
> what a C or
> 		a C++ program is.
>
> --->		My Questions:
> 1)	Is my attempt to convince them correct?


If you say to them that printf() is not C++ then you are wrong. What you
must say is that C++ provides newer facilities which are superior
alternatives.



> 2)	If it is, is there any set of options that allows me to
> inhibt to mix
> 	C and C++ features?


No because it is C++. You haven't any mixture of the 2 languages. Personally
I wouldn't mark it as wrong since it is not.





Ioannis Vranos

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