The optimist in me sees this getting used to greatly reduce the amount of code required for many repetitive things that are often done in C. Partial Applicatio

The optimist in me sees this getting used to greatly reduce the amount of code required for many repetitive things that are often done in C. Partial Application could be really powerful in such a verbose language, and MACRO tricks to accomplish similar results are hard to debug and pretty ugly. The pessimist in me sees a lot of very poor design decisions resulting from this feature, because everyone will be excited to play with the new toy. The realist in me does not expect to see this in ANSI C any time soon.