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The C11 specification from #wg14 is so dreadful, so full of dumb ideas badly explained, as to shock the conscience
#computerscience #programming #Clanguage #c11 #wg14

Meeting 71 of WG14 (the ISO C committee) is now complete, and I've written a blogpost with an overview of the proposals that were highlights for me: https://www.ethernull.org/blog_posts/2024_10.1_wg14.html

With thanks to @AaronBallman @erisceleste @thephd for writing the proposals I wrote about!

Obviously there were plenty of great papers, these were just a few I particularly liked. C23 is really nice, and I think C2y is already shaping up to be something quite special. :)

#WG14
#C2y
#C

I wonder if anyone has seriously thought about adding some kind of namespacing to the C preprocessor.

for example, it would be nice if you could say

#namespace FOO
#include "foo.h"
#endnamespace

and then all the preprocessor defines from foo.h are brought into your file with names like FOO###BOOL

#c #preprocessor #cpreprocessor #cpp #wg14