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C++ is not even technically a superset of C... `auto` has very different meanings in both languages, and you can't omit the return type of an int-returning fun

by palunon 10y ago

C++ is not even technically a superset of C... `auto` has very different meanings in both languages, and you can't omit the return type of an int-returning function in C++

david-given 10y ago
Have you ever tried to compile an old C program which extensively used variables called 'old' and 'new' with a C++ compiler? I have. Also, C++ doesn't allow implicit casts from void* to any pointer type, which is a common C idiom.
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