Re: [ros-dev] win32k C++ suggestion

[James Tabor]

Simply but, do not fix, if it is not broken. C++ is good to go. Let's fix
what is broken now before 0.4.0 is released.

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Aleksey Bragin <aleksey(a)reactos.org>
wrote:

>   I always liked C++, and it was my main development
> language before I
>  joined ReactOS. Indeed let's not rush, think/discuss through all possible
>  things and then start gradually going for it for code pieces which are good
>  (which means GDI first of all).
>
>  Regards,
>  Aleksey
>
>
>  On 21.02.2015 17:05, Timo Kreuzer wrote:
>
> >   Hi
> >
> >  I'd like to propose introducing C++ to win32k. Don't worry, this is not a
> >  suggestion to rewrite everything from scratch in C++, but to gradually
> >  introduce C++.
> >  The reason is not "That's what Windows does", but the fact that
> >  especially GDI would heavily benefit in terms of code simplicity, clarily
> >  and quality from using C++.
> >  A lot of the interfaces are already in a C++ object style way, but still
> >  code can bypass interfaces and directly modify structure members, even if
> >  it is not supposed to be done that way.
> >  Unless there are strong objections, I'd post a design / style / roadmap
> >  suggestion soon.
> >  If people feel strongly about it, we can defer this to after a 0.4.0
> >  release.
> >
> >  Regards,
> >  Timo
> >  
>
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