It's not technically a feature of the language, as it is not standardized and is compiler-specific. But thing you are talking about indeed recurs here. The way

It's not technically a feature of the language, as it is not standardized and is compiler-specific. But thing you are talking about indeed recurs here. The way I typically guess is that new generations of programmers are coming up all the time and may be unfamiliar with some old stuff. Or, maybe even some experienced people who never happened to touch c or c++ [there are more of those as time goes on].