> Perhaps I should have said "Supporting versions of C past the point where one could plausibly just pipe the C code through a C++ compiler." Like supporting f

> Perhaps I should have said "Supporting versions of C past the point where one could plausibly just pipe the C code through a C++ compiler." Like supporting for-loop variable declarations, which MSVC's C++ compilation mode (/TP) supports, but MSVC's C compilation mode (/TC) does not? Oh - and what about declaring a variable anywhere other than the start of a scope? Allowed in C++, not in C. Cute.