Re: Is C99 the final C? (some suggestions)

From: Paul Hsieh (qed_at_pobox.com)
Date: 12/06/03 

Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 16:01:04 GMT

ajo@nospam.andrew.cmu.edu says...
> > > My gut feeling is that this would effectively force the compiler to
> > > maintain a dynamic parser on-the-fly while scanning through the source,
> > > which would be wildly complex.
> >
> > Yes it complexifies the parser quite a bit. I don't dispute that.
>
> Not the parser so much as the lexer. Is "a %^&%*!^ b" three tokens,
> four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine? It depends on the semantics
> of the code we've already translated.
> Note that this is *NOT*, repeat *NOT*, an idea that will ever make
> it into the C programming language, for this reason -- as expressed
> in this subthread, it would break almost *every* C-parsing tool on
> the market.

So would adding &&& and |||. Remember that my premise is that if one is
motivated to add one of those, why not add in something more general? 

--
Paul Hsieh
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