From: Chris Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: To person who ported PGCC to DJGPP
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 14:46:24 +0200
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Gili wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 08:58:18, Gautier DOT DeMontmollin AT maths DOT unine DOT ch
> wrote:
> 
> > If you really want to program with exceptions, use a language
> > where they are defined as standard and work: Ada. GNAT Ada 95 for
> > DOS uses DJGPP 2.01 as back-end and exceptions _do_ work !
> 
>         I like C++ and exceptions ARE a standard in the language, so I don't
> see what the big deal is.

Namespaces are also in the ANSI Standard for C++, but they aren't
implemented in GCC (any version).  Hopefully they will be soon now that
the standard is out.  (Question: are namespaces implemented as pe the
standard in any C++ compiler yet?)

Chris C