Classes being added to C?

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From: Thomas Boutell
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 19:07

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I recently heard a rumor that the addition of C++-like classes
to standard C was being considered. As far as my source understood
it, the classes in question would be Objective C -- like in
design.

Two things:

1. Is this a real proposal of any degree of seriousness?

2. Isn't this an absolutely awful idea? Right now, C and C++
are very nearly completely compatible and it is generally practical
to write code that compiles under both. Adding classes in a non-C++-like
way would destroy C/C++ compatibility (or force C++ to support
yet another irrelevant carbuncle).

-T

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