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Your appeal to authority using WG14 (hapless goldbricks) and google/Microsoft (C++ shops) falls really flat.
by Gibbon1 4y ago
Your appeal to authority using WG14 (hapless goldbricks) and google/Microsoft (C++ shops) falls really flat.
- pjmlp 4y agoThat authority drives the C language evolution and couldn't care less about what you, or me for that matter, think.
- uecker 4y agoAnd I am part of WG14 (so a hapless goldbrick). The reason VLA were made optional to make implementing C easier, as C99 was not adopted quickly. Although the reason for the slow adoption were others. MSVC did not really support C at all at C99 time because they thought everyone should transition to C++. Only very recently C support catched up in MSVC.
- pjmlp 4y agoGreat, so when is the C11 rationale getting published? https://groups.google.com/g/comp.std.c/c/E0yxHfpcOfY https://groups.google.com/g/comp.std.c/c/E0yxHfpcOfY
- Jorengarenar 4y agoIIRC, there will be no more rationales
- Gibbon1 4y agoObviously since they've done literally nothing in the last 20 years.