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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: relearning C: why does an in-place change to a char* segfault?
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:00:35 -0700
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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

> Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> writes:
>
>> James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
>>
>>> Just as 1 is an integer literal whose value cannot be modified,
>>> [...]
>>
>> The C language doesn't have integer literals.  C has string
>> literals, and compound literals, and it has integer constants.
>> But C does not have integer literals.
>
> Technically correct (but IMHO not really worth worrying about).

Anyone who flogs others posters for incorrectly using terminology
defined in the ISO C standard should set a good example by using
the ISO-C-defined terms correctly himself.

> There is a proposal for C2y, authored by Jens Gustedt, to change the
> term "constant" to "literal" for character, integer, and floating
> constants.  (I think it's a good idea.)
>
> <https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3239.htm>

The more C is changed to resemble C++ the worse it becomes.  It
isn't surprising that you like it.