Re: [igraph] use of STL in igraph

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:25 PM, roberto pagliari
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> walk_trap.cpp in the source code is written in c++.

If you check the file, you'll see that it was written by someone else
and not us. This is open source code that we integrated into igraph,
and we didn't want to rewrite it in C.

> That aside is there any
> technical reason for using c instead of c++?  :)

There are several reasons, the most important ones are that C is a lot
simpler than C++, and has fewer portability issues.

Gabor

> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Tamas Nepusz <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> > I was wondering why there is no use of STL in igraph (c version)
>> Well, because the STL is C++ only.
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