Re: lua.h and c++

[Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>]

Daniel Walker wrote:
> Unfortunately I can't really accept that solution as the
> necessity for it is the exact problem I wished to address.
> Furthermore, you may notice that
>
>  #ifndef LUA_API
>  #ifdef __cplusplus
>  #define LUA_API extern "C"
>  #else
>  #define LUA_API extern
>  #endif
>  #endif
>
> is perfectly valid C code, which completely eliminates the
> need for any C++ specifics, and would keep the issue in
> question from ever arising again. There really isn't any
> benefit in not writing a header like this, so why not?

Surely we'd then just get people who want to compile Lua as C++ complaining?

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