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Isognoviastoma on Feb 21, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chris Lattner left Swift core team

C begins to increase rate of adding breaking changes.

C23 is about to

- add keywords that was valid identifiers before

- remove K&R parameter syntax

- change semantics of the most popular function argument list declaration

- forbid representations other than 2's complement

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30395016

duped on Feb 21, 2022 | [–]

The over adherence to bloat in the name of backwards compatibility holds the language back - these are incredibly conservative changes that reflect practices which have already been used for decades!

kevin_thibedeau on Feb 21, 2022 | [–]

What new keywords? Everything new goes into the reserved namespace with macros to look like the C++ versions.

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