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I love C, performance and security. Between this garbage collector and the capability enforcement, this is appealing. I've thought a few times about what a mo
by CMay 1y ago
I love C, performance and security. Between this garbage collector and the capability enforcement, this is appealing. I've thought a few times about what a more secure C would look like, brushing over capability concepts here and there, but I don't belong near compiler code.
How hard would it be to support Windows?
- lucideer 1y ago<off-topic> Took me far too long to understand your opening sentence; eventually realised the Oxford comma would've helped me out. Rare to see a clear example in the wild.
- falcor84 1y agoI would have also accepted a colon.
- kccqzy 1y agoThat would change the meaning.
- falcor84 1y agoWhy, what do you mean? My understanding was that it's a list of subjects of affection, so for clarity, I would rewrite > I love C, performance and security. as > I love: C, performance and security. How would it change the meaning? What am I missing?
- CMay 1y agoYour colon does not really solve ambiguity. They likely thought you meant "I love C: performance and security." which would make it more explicit, but it would also change the meaning and thus be incorrect. If I thought it was ambiguous enough to really try to fix, what I would probably default to is an elaboration. For example: "I love the intersection of C, performance and security." The meaning is not exactly the same, but it is more the same than your colon.
- falcor84 1y agoI suppose my reading was essentially as "These are a few of my favorite things", i.e. that I love each of them, and it would be quite nice if I could enjoy all of them at the same time, but it's not that I only love their intersection.
- CMay 1y agoThe potential for misinterpretation didn't escape me, but I was also confident that there was sufficient context to understand it. An Oxford comma there would have suggested a more careful cadence if it were spoken, which is not what I wanted. As you said, it can be rare to see a case where it truly is ambiguous, but the context here negates that well enough.