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

[Samisa Abeysinghe]

Samisa Abeysinghe wrote:
> 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
Xerces/C also mentions about using a portable subset. But again I could 
not find a doc on what they are exactly using. 'Portable subset' may 
have totally different implications to 'simplified subset' as used in ICU.

Samisa...