Re: [Help-gsl] a question on an implementation choice

[Nicolas Bock]

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Thanks


On 02/18/11 04:42, Brian Gough wrote:
> At Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:15:01 -0700,
> Nicolas Bock wrote:
>> * Why did you decide to stick with C and not use C++ and its template
>> functionality? Wouldn't that have lead to a cleaner implementation?
> 
> C was the GNU standard language so it was not really a question of
> preference, just following the standard.  
> 
> If you have no other constraints, then C++ is preferable for templates.  
> 
>> * Was there a particular reason to implement the templates in the C
>> files with includes to other C files as opposed to in the makefile
>> with "-D..." preprocessor arguments?
> 
> It was just a simple way that worked.
> 
> 
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