Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Jul 2013 13:27:19 -0400 | From | "John W. Linville" <> | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] DT bindings as ABI [was: Do we have people interested in device tree janitoring / cleanup?] |
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:30:45AM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: > On 07/29/2013 08:15 PM, jonsmirl@gmail.com wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:44 PM, David Gibson > > <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote: > ... > >> I also think we should consider the option of having a simple and > >> straightforward schema language which handles, say, 80% of cases with > >> a fall back to C for the 20% of curly cases. That might actually be > >> simpler to work with in practice than a schema language which can > >> express absolutely anything, at the cost of being awkward for simple > >> cases or difficult to get your head around. > > > > Would C++ work? You can use operating overloading and templates to > > change the syntax into something that doesn't even resemble C any > > more. > > From my perspective, that's precisely why C++ should /not/ be used.
Amen.
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