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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