Ancestors

Written by Björkus "No time_t to Die" Dorkus on 2024-12-15 at 22:19

This is closing in 5 days. Add your response to the mix as soon as possible, or risk never being heard in the Official Vote™!!

https://thephd.dev/the-big-array-size-survey-for-c

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Toot

Written by James Widman on 2024-12-18 at 00:38

@thephd i like how, at the beginning of "nelemsof", it sort of sounds like a Tolkien-esque name.

missing option: "nelemor" (spoken with a trilled 'r' at the end)

• slightly* more seriously: i always felt like the "of" in "sizeof", "typeof", and in every function name ending with "of", is redundant (since "of" is often implied just by the following parens).

So I kinda wish we could have "nelems(array)", maybe as a contextual keyword where the parser looks for '(' immediately after "nelems".

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Descendants

Written by James Widman on 2024-12-18 at 01:03

@thephd chaotic neutral choice: "nelems", as a straight-up keyword, because it will force a lot of people to learn how to do automated renaming with clang tooling, and also bc it will carry the added benefit of causing users who cannot tolerate certain changes to ragequit from committee involvement, thus making it easier to push other breaking changes through the committee for subsequent versions of the standard.

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Written by James Widman on 2024-12-18 at 01:14

@thephd [spaces out thinking about how much better language design could be if everyone understood & accepted that they're going to have to do (and will do) some semi-automated-but-tool-assisted transformations to their code, including global renaming, in order to upgrade to the next version of the language.]

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