> Where did you get this falsehood from? Which falsehood? That K&R C was written to fit on the PDP-11 and its limitations reflect that? I think that's well att

> Where did you get this falsehood from? Which falsehood? That K&R C was written to fit on the PDP-11 and its limitations reflect that? I think that's well attested. It may very well be that Odin fits your intuitions, it certainly doesn't fit mine. Take your "range based for loop" - it does something for a handful of built-in types. What it does is presumably whatever your intuition said it should do, and then for custom types it just doesn't work at all. I'm sure that in your mind this is simple, "It just does what you expect". But to my mind it's extremely complicated - it does these different specific things I'd need to remember, and in any other cases it's just not legal Odin at all. > The entire constant value system requires a big-number implementation to get right. Unless "big-number" is rather over-stating what was needed here I don't get this.