From: musiphil@bawi.org   
      
   On 2012-10-27 23:07, Francis Glassborow wrote:   
   >   
   > C++ has (at considerable cost) continued to maintain as close a   
   > compatibility with C as possible. I cannot see that WG21 would win   
   > many friends by taking code that looks like pure C and changing its   
   > behaviour. The idea was simply that if we write code that looks like C   
   > and is within the intersection of C and C++ it will be acceptable to   
   > both languages.   
      
   I see that your point has been that WG21 shouldn't try to fix what C++   
   just inherited from C, to which I agree. When I asked why the syntax   
   was made illegal, I wasn't proposing we should change it in C++ but I   
   was merely asking why it was made so in C in the first place. I should   
   probably have asked it in a C group. :)   
      
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