[antlr-interest] More, Status of C++ backend?

[Gavin Lambert]

At 19:43 2/01/2008, Luke A. Guest wrote:
 >I have to say that it really does make sense to have the C++
 >sources depend on the C sources. i.e. for the C++ to use the
 >C string sources is fine IMO. I mean what would be the point
 >in rewriting the string code specifically for C++?

Well, inheritance can be represented a bit cleaner in C++.

But in the end it doesn't make a lot of difference.  Either way 
there's going to be duplication (even if only interface 
duplication to create C++ wrapper classes).

But I think that the C++ runtime should end up looking almost 
identical to the Java runtime (both for familiarity and ease of 
maintenance), whereas the C runtime necessarily has to be 
significantly different since the language has no syntactic 
support for OOP.