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C begins to increase rate of adding breaking changes. C23 is about to - add keywords that was valid identifiers before - remove K&R parameter syntax - chang
by Isognoviastoma 5y ago
C begins to increase rate of adding breaking changes.
C23 is about to
- add keywords that was valid identifiers before
- remove K&R parameter syntax
- change semantics of the most popular function argument list declaration
- forbid representations other than 2's complement
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30395016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30395016
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoWhat new keywords? Everything new goes into the reserved namespace with macros to look like the C++ versions.
- duped 5y agoThe over adherence to bloat in the name of backwards compatibility holds the language back - these are incredibly conservative changes that reflect practices which have already been used for decades!