comp.lang.c++

Ian Collins wrote:
> Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>> Ian Collins wrote:
>>> Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>>>> Carmen Sei wrote:
>>>>> if I need to write C++, I will be forced to learn C automatically?
>>>>>
>>>>> Since I saw many C++ code need to call C library also.
>>>>>
>>>>> Most program use a combination of C++ code and calling C functions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Then writting C++, I cannot avoid learning C right?
>>>> With minor exceptions C95 (ISO/IEC 9899:1995) is a subset of C++
>>>> (ISO/IEC 14882:2003).
>>> No, they are not "minor exceptions".
>>
>> Supposing you are not talking about the word "exception", the exceptions
>> I know are the following:
>>
>>
>> 1. Not implicit void * to any other pointer type conversion, as in C95.
>> 2. 'a' is a char in C++ and not an int as in C95.
>> 3. 0 is to be preferred than NULL, which does not apply to C95.
>> 4. POD types can be considered as char/unsigned char sequences in C++,
>> but only as unsigned char sequences in C95.
>> 5. Empty parentheses in function declarations/definitions are equivalent
>> to void in C++, but is a different thing in C95.
>>
>> Have I forgotten anything?
>
> Implicit int, missing function prototypes, use of const,

Right, those too.


> assignments to
> enums...


An example?