> but don't then say that existing code still compiles fine. Oh, I'm not disputing that a lot of existing C code wom't compile as C++; I'm just nitpicking the

> but don't then say that existing code still compiles fine. Oh, I'm not disputing that a lot of existing C code wom't compile as C++; I'm just nitpicking the claim that good C code won't compile as C++. ;) But to be fair, there are perfectly good, valid C programs that don't compile as C++, void * aside.