From:	"Al Amzeen (Alexandr Amzin)" <amzeen AT mtu-net DOT ru>
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Subject:	Re: C++, fonts and Allegro
Date:	Tue, 18 Apr 2000 19:39:48 +0400
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Greetings, doug and Steamer (answering to both)! You wrote:
Doug:
> Well, C is not C++.  There are different accepted ways to best program
> C or C++.  So it is completely normal what you have seen.  You will
> see this with lots of C code, not just Allegro.
>
> Basically, since C++ is subtly not the same as C, even thoug if it often
> said that C++ is backwards compatible with C, it isn't all the time.
> I think you might call is a C++ bug. ;-)

Steamer:
>C++ doesn't allow implicit conversion from void*, but C does.
>IMHO it's bad practice to write C that won't compile as C++,
>but it's certainly possible.

Thanks for diagnostic, guys, but...how can I cure that hmmm disease? :)

Is there a way to convert it?

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