Re: Making C better (by borrowing from C++)

ymuntyan@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Dec 24, 3:51 pm, Richard Heathfield <r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ymunt...@xxxxxxxxx said:

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What he said in no way contradicts "c.l.c
needs to relax a but from some of the pedantry being enforced by
a small but vocal group".
Are you saying that you would prefer the group to lower the quality of its
advice?

If I understand your question correctly, my answer is "no".

Are you saying that fighting with Jacob Navia is "quality"?
What you say about newbies and kittens, and correcting mistakes,
etc. is BS too. GNU and MS do much more harm than Jacob with his
compiler as far as correct portable code (or learning to write
such code) is concerned.

Let me re-quote what you snip

"In any event you now see how c.l.c is seen by many people. The "C
language Taliban" A group of "religious" nutters.

This is why I have been saying c.l.c needs to relax a but from some of
the pedantry being enforced by a small but vocal group"

You can pick random words from posts and then prove they are
wrong how much you want, but it won't change a thing, you know.
If you want, here you go: you are right again, once more,
hooray!

Yevgen

Let me put it this way: What is standard C? There can only be one answer to
that question. It can't be both C89 and C99, it can only be one or the other.
That is the problem with the "C language Taliban" Same as Sunni vs Shi'a. If
you allow more than one, it is the camel's nose under the tent as you have
implicitly approved all.

If anyone really wants to make this a fit place for any of the several C
standards, they better get together a FAQ, posted regularly, about the group and
list which standards are permitted and if they are serious about not having
posts about other C standards they should include pointers to where discussion
on those topics is encouraged. The lack of such a FAQ is a green light to call
GNU a standard C and discuss it here. They would also be smart to include
pointers for O/S specific libraries and questions because the name of the group
invites too much.

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