Re: Rewriting pkglint in a portable language

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 09:33:56PM +0100, Roland Illig wrote:
> If someone can convince me that C++ or even C is better suited, please
> do so. I just fear the undefined behavior too much.

My impression of vala => the glib object model is that it was developed
as a way of having objects by defining macros to help order the beginning
of C structs to effectively have C++ classes in C. C++ compilers have
come a long way since then, so if you like Vala, why not just use C++?
C++11 has a regular expression library. If it hadn't I wouldn't make
the suggestion as we would be back in extra dependency land.

  https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53631

suggests it might even appear in gcc in -current shortly :-)



Cheers,

Patrick