Re: Replacing __BEGIN_DECLS in curses

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 01:56:21PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 11:44:03AM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> > One such change is replacing __BEGIN_DECLS and __END_DECLS with expanded
> > macros like
> > #ifdef cplusplus
> > extern "C" {
> > #endif
> > 
> > Which is a lot more portable and very standard.
> > Suggested patch to curses, forms and panel attached.
> > Commentary welcome.
> 
> Please don't. This is clearly a regression for the headers.

Why is it a regression?
 Thomas