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C++ had this forever (I assume), but for C this would be a breaking change which we try very hard to avoid.
by uecker 4y ago
C++ had this forever (I assume), but for C this would be a breaking change which we try very hard to avoid.
- WickedSmoke 4y agoCould you please give an example of what would break? Perhaps I'm being dense, but it seems a new C standard supporting this would still compile existing code just as C++ can.
- keyneus 4y agoIn C, it's perfectly legal to do this: struct S { ... }; typedef int S; That's not valid in C++ (so would be a breaking change in C, if it were to adopt this). I don't really think changing this in C would break all that much code, but it's definitely not backwards compatible.