Fixing C's Biggest Mistake

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Wed Jan 4 21:16:30 UTC 2023


On 1/3/2023 1:42 AM, jonatjano wrote:
> I think you should do it, you're losing much more time arguing about it's value 
> than if you did it from the start
> People want you to work on this and that but argue so much with you on a 
> non-breaking addition that you don't have the time to work at all

Every post I make spawns multiple leaves with everyone repeating their same 
positions. At some point any progress grinds to a halt.

> As far as I understand it's nothing more than a syntax for D slices into 
> betterC, which mean most of the code is already written

That's right.

> (maybe it could use D 
> slice syntax directly for a better transition from betterC to full D if wanted?)

The D syntax won't work in C, which is why I changed it slightly.


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