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> It's a shame this will never get through the insane bureaucracy that is the C standards committee. Had they listened to you all the way back in 2009, C11 migh
by ryao 4y ago
> It's a shame this will never get through the insane bureaucracy that is the C standards committee. Had they listened to you all the way back in 2009, C11 might have been a game changer the same way C++11 was. Alas.
This comment did not age well:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34086304 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34086304
A quick test with `clang -std=c89 -pedantic` says it was in C99. Amazingly, it seems that almost nobody knew about it.
- sirwhinesalot 4y agoNot the same thing at all, that only works with compile-time known sizes.
- WalterBright 4y agoPascal arrays were fixed at compile time, which I quickly discovered made Pascal rather useless without extensions.
- ryao 4y agoThe example was for compile-time known sizes.