Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:25:41 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Thoughts on the _Generic feature? Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:25:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Aaron W. Hsu" Organization: Indiana University Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.10 (Linux) Lines: 9 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-tNTEKNZcxYWeV1gs4ImlO94K4FES4BWngiNJZSOmbFQb9h7vyIIOHKFgr2xO5F7c9VgSQyvydp6CR8w!vEJJv+jjgkG34Xxc/YrxCmlc8hBpRI4yZd70Mq7cDpWO8jzmlg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1481 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:27057 With C11 comes the _Generic feature to enable a form of generic programming. That's pretty nice, actually, from my standpoint, but I wonder if others who do more programming in C than I have thoughts on it? I use C mostly as a means to implement other languages, so I have some fondness for the ability to do this sort of generic programming. -- Aaron W. Hsu | arcfide@sacrideo.us | http://www.sacrideo.us Programming is just another word for the Lost Art of Thinking.