[Oberon] Trivialising formality considered harmful

[jan verhoeven]

Op Thursday 16 March 2006 02:53 schreef August Karlstrom:
 > jan verhoeven wrote:
 > > Op Wednesday 15 March 2006 22:24 schreef August Karlstrom:
 >
 > [snip]
 >
 > >  > It's perfectly OK to implement the extensions described in the
 > >  > Oakwood guidelines or some other extensions, but I think a special
 > >  > compiler flag/option should need to be used to compile a module
 > >  > that uses these extensions, e.g. "--with-oak-extensions" or
 > >  > "--with-abc-extensions".
 > >
 > > That's what made gcc into the current monstruous program it is. It's a
 > > good C compiler, but it's just too big with too many flags.
 >
 > But gcc is the other way around; it requires something like three flags
 > to go into standard C mode (-ansi -pedantic -std=c89). My idea is that
 > an Oberon-2 compiler should by default be... an Oberon-2 compiler! If
 > you want it to be something else you have to let it know.

So apparently we agree.

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