It's only a hack in C++ these days, from C90 it's standardized. That's like your opinion, plenty of C programmers worth their salt would disagree with you. Lo

It's only a hack in C++ these days, from C90 it's standardized. That's like your opinion, plenty of C programmers worth their salt would disagree with you. Look, I'm not saying it's impossible to write code that compiles both as C and C++. The same is true of many other languages. The point is that you can't write C and expect it to be valid C++, which was the only thing I claimed.