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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Hex string literals (was Re: C23 thoughts and opinions)
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 02:32:30 -0700
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:54:15 +0200, David Brown wrote:
>> ... C++ could not use underscores
>> due to their use in user-defined literals, and C followed C++.
>
> C can still offer the option for them, though.

As of the new C23 standard (not yet officially published) C *already*
uses apostrophes as digit separators.  I would have preferred
underscores to apostrophes myself, but allowing both would be worse.

And C might want to introduce something similar to C++'s user-defined
literals some day.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */