You are right. Either I was thinking of another comment by Derek Jones (one of the two persons I know on the C standardization committee, which is otherwise qui

You are right. Either I was thinking of another comment by Derek Jones (one of the two persons I know on the C standardization committee, which is otherwise quite opaque) or I projected my own image of a patiently malevolent committee on the phrase “doing stuff that we could only dream about back in the day” that he did not mean this way. I have edited my comment.