[swift-evolution] SE-0181 : should c++ be written "cxx" or "cpp" ?

Trevör Anne Denise trevor.annedenise at icloud.com
Thu Jul 13 06:47:02 CDT 2017


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> Le 13 juil. 2017 à 00:59, Chris Lattner <clattner at nondot.org> a écrit :
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>> On Jul 12, 2017, at 2:21 PM, Greg Parker via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>>> On Jul 12, 2017, at 10:21 AM, Trevör ANNE DENISE via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>>> After quickly reading "SE-0181: Package Manager C/C++ Language Standard Support" I noticed that as Swift doesn't support "+" sign in identifiers, the format "cxx" was used (as in "CXXLanguageStandard"), why isn't "cpp" used instead of "cxx" ?
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>> Several Swift developers came from clang, and clang uses "CXX" almost everywhere.
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> Little known fact: + is just an x with the unicode 45° combining character applied to it.  ;-)
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> -Chris
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