[Bf-committers] Status of C++

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

The convention is that all modules in Blender have a C API, but within  
a module a developer can choose whether to use C or C++. It's not very  
practical to mix C and C++ within sections, which is a reason why most  
of source/blender/ code still is C. A lot of libararies outside this  
directory are C++.

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 15 Nov, 2010, at 21:49, Leo Sutic wrote:

> I've looked in a lot of places and Googled, but haven't found any
> answer: What is the status of C++ in Blender? Should I just take a  
> hint
> from the fact that it is almost all written in C, or is that an  
> artifact
> of it being 15 years old?
>
> I know that it isn't the easiest language out there, but std::vector  
> is
> kinda nice, and basic single inheritance, too. I have no problem  
> with C,
> but that syntactic sugar of C++ is sweet in small doses.
>
> /LS
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