[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 at 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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