Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator

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Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:

> On 2025-01-24, Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> JeanHeyd Meneide, a Project Editor for WG14, has just posted the
>> results of a survey re. the preferred form of a new array size
>> operator:
>>
>> "There is a clear preference for a lowercase keyword, here, though
>> it is not by the biggest margin.  One would imagine that with the
>> way we keep standardizing things since C89 (starting with _Keyword
>> and then adding a header with a macro) that C folks would be
>> overwhelmingly in favor of simply continuing that style.  The graph
>> here, however, tells a different story:  while there's a large
>> contingency that clearly hates having _Keyword by itself, it's not
>> the _Keyword + stdkeyword.h macro that comes out on top!  It's just
>> having a plain lowercase keyword, instead."
>
> The best way to have versioning for this in a C compiler is a
> language dialect selection option.  [...]

The best way is not to add this unnecesary feature to the standard
at all.

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Results of survey re. a new array size operator Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> - 2025-01-24 17:57 +1100
  Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-24 13:56 +0200
    Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-24 14:16 +0000
      Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-01-24 20:10 +0000
        Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-24 22:12 +0000
          Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-01-25 00:57 +0000
            Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-01-29 01:48 -0800
              Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2025-01-29 11:45 +0000
                Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-01-29 14:24 +0200
                Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Richard Damon <richard@damon-family.org> - 2025-01-29 07:24 -0500
                Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-01-29 08:01 -0800
                Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2025-01-29 11:09 -0500
                Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-01-29 08:18 -0800
  Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2025-01-24 08:56 -0500
    Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-01-24 20:24 +0000
      Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2025-01-24 20:32 -0500
        Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-01-25 02:40 +0000
          Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2025-01-25 00:06 -0500
      Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-01-29 02:13 -0800
    Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2025-01-24 23:13 +0000
      Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-01-25 01:17 +0000
      Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2025-01-24 20:57 -0500
        Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2025-01-25 21:18 +0000
          Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-01-25 16:28 -0800
            Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2025-01-26 01:48 +0000
            Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-01-29 02:31 -0800
  Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-01-24 19:45 +0000
    Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> - 2025-01-25 09:39 +1100
      Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-01-25 01:16 +0000
    Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-01-29 02:17 -0800
  Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-01-29 02:19 -0800
  Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk> - 2025-01-29 16:00 +0000
    Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-01-29 18:01 +0100
      Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk> - 2025-01-30 00:31 +0000
        Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-01-30 10:59 +0100
        Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-01-30 12:13 -0800
          Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-01-30 21:33 +0000
            Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-01-30 22:31 +0000
            Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-02-18 19:46 -0800

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