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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 06:52:33 +0000
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On 12/03/2025 05:11, Tim Rentsch wrote:
> Are any of these cases ones that you find objectionable

In my capacity as grumpy old git? All of them, of course.

For sound practical reasons? No, of course not.

But the importance of grump should not be under-estimated.

> or would
> cause difficulty for code that you work on?  If so which ones?
> My question here is meant to ask about specifics, not just
> general categories.  And to be clear, I don't mean to limit the
> set of potential problems being considered to just the examples
> given above.

I suppose what I'm trying to get at is that there is merit in 
having a small, well-defined, well-known language that doesn't 
keep buzzing around. People who want bells and whistles can 
undoubtedly find them in other languages, so why insist on 
dragging them into C as well when they're so rarely a good fit, 
like trying to split an infinitive... in Latin?

So no, Tim; it's not for specific technical reasons, but more for 
the sake of having one widely-known language that really is a 
lingua franca and valuable for that very reason.

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