Re: Simplicity has a future

Ian Collins said:

Richard Heathfield wrote:
I'll take the hit on the splice, which is trivially fixable.

(Withdrawn. That was a misreading of my own code.)

The others
are only errors in C99, which doesn't count.

Hang on a minute, you're posting code that won't compile as C99 and
asking the audience to convert it to C++? Given your original rules, it
can't be morphed to C99, let alone C++.

The claim I was addressing, which was originally made by Tomas, is that "I
can copy-paste your C code and compile it as C++". Are you claiming that
C90 code is not C code unless it is also C99 code?

I'm sure I could turn my C99 compiler back to C90, but why bother?

Which C99 compiler are you using? If the answer is "gcc", why bother to
claim that you have a C99 compiler? (gcc is /not/ a conforming C99
compiler.)

Maybe if you can explain the usefulness to mankind of the code, I might
give it a go....

Like much code posted here, its usefulness to mankind is that it illustrates
a point about the language. In this case, the point is that the claim "I
can copy-paste your C code and compile it as C++" is demonstrably false.

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