[wsf-c-dev] Issues for a next generation C stack

[Samisa Abeysinghe]

James Clark wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 18:11 +0600, Samisa Abeysinghe wrote:
>   
>> James Clark wrote:
>>     
>>> - Use of C++.  Can and should we make use of C++? If so, what
>>> restrictions do we need to impose?
>>>   
>>>       
>> In case we decide on using C++, what implications would that have on 
>> embedding efforts such as PHP extension?
>>     
>
> One of the hard requirements on any use of C++ would be that it didn't
> cause problems for embedding.  With the right restrictions on C++, I
> believe this is possible.  ICU is an existence proof: it's being used as
> the basis for PHP6's Unicode support, but it's written mostly in (a
> subset of) C++.
>   
I tried to find a doc/guideline on ICU C++ subset and I only found this: 
http://icu.sourceforge.net/userguide/conventions.html#cpp

Samisa...