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| From | David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Variable naming issue |
| Date | 2017-04-26 00:16 +0200 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <odohl3$iln$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (6 earlier) <87efwgzlqj.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <v2ILA.398632$2K7.234422@fx18.am4> <87wpa8y5vb.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <lnh91cnwtx.fsf@kst-u.example.com> <d%OLA.526450$8b6.223935@fx19.am4> |
On 25/04/17 23:14, bartc wrote: > On 25/04/2017 19:52, Keith Thompson wrote: > >> Even ignoring all that, the amount of work required to implement >> a feature is only one of a number of considerations that should >> affect the decision of whether to support that feature. > > Yet, it's supported by DMC. By gcc. By MSVC. By Pelles C. By Clang. By > nearly all the C compilers on Godbolt. > > With a feature already so widespread, it becomes problematic /not/ > having it. It would only be a problem if the /use/ of $ in identifiers in C was widespread, rather than just the compiler support for it. Further, the $ would need to be used in code that is not bound to particular compilers in other ways (such as requiring the modern C11 standard, or support for multiple target cpus, or other compiler extensions). > >> I've never thought that C's problem is that it doesn't use enough >> punctuation characters. C++ could perhaps do with support for more symbols/punctuation for new operators, but C has enough IMHO. > > It wouldn't be a punctuation character. "$$$" would be a single > identifier just like "___". Not three successive symbols. > That's true, logically. But visually, the $ reads like punctuation or a symbol, not unlike _ (except more disruptive to read).
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Variable naming issue maximus fl <ajones2600@gmail.com> - 2017-04-24 16:17 -0700
Re: Variable naming issue David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2017-04-24 16:28 -0700
Re: Variable naming issue bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-04-25 01:09 +0100
Re: Variable naming issue Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2017-04-25 09:37 +0200
Re: Variable naming issue bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-04-25 10:40 +0100
Re: Variable naming issue David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-04-25 13:07 +0200
Re: Variable naming issue bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-04-25 13:24 +0100
Re: Variable naming issue bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-04-25 13:27 +0100
Re: Variable naming issue Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-04-25 13:59 +0100
Re: Variable naming issue bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-04-25 14:20 +0100
Re: Variable naming issue Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-04-25 14:27 +0100
Re: Variable naming issue Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-04-25 11:52 -0700
Re: Variable naming issue Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-04-25 13:40 -0700
Re: Variable naming issue bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-04-25 22:14 +0100
Re: Variable naming issue David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-04-26 00:16 +0200
Re: Variable naming issue bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-04-26 00:13 +0100
Re: Variable naming issue David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-04-26 10:10 +0200
Re: Variable naming issue supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-04-25 14:33 -0700
Re: Variable naming issue Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-04-25 06:39 -0700
Re: Variable naming issue Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-04-25 09:35 -0500
Re: Variable naming issue Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 18:39 +0100
Re: Variable naming issue bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-04-25 18:49 +0100
Re: Variable naming issue David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 11:19 -0700
Re: Variable naming issue bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-04-25 19:31 +0100
Re: Variable naming issue Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-04-25 23:36 +0100
Re: Variable naming issue David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 17:04 -0700
Re: Variable naming issue Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-04-26 00:32 -0500
Re: Variable naming issue David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-04-25 16:02 +0200
Re: Variable naming issue Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-05-02 05:25 -0700
Re: Variable naming issue supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-05-02 10:04 -0700
Re: Variable naming issue Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-05-05 03:06 -0700
Re: Variable naming issue supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-04-25 07:12 -0700
Re: Variable naming issue Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-04-25 09:48 -0500
Re: Variable naming issue Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-04-25 09:52 -0500
Re: Variable naming issue Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2017-04-26 08:46 +0200
Re: Variable naming issue bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-04-26 11:46 +0100
Re: Variable naming issue bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-04-26 12:00 +0100
Re: Variable naming issue gordonb.o1c18@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2017-05-07 22:25 -0500
Re: Variable naming issue bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-05-08 10:35 +0100
Re: Variable naming issue bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-05-08 10:53 +0100
Re: Variable naming issue David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 11:47 -0700
Re: Variable naming issue bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2017-05-08 19:59 +0100
Re: Variable naming issue gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2017-04-25 10:43 +0000
Re: Variable naming issue Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-04-25 09:33 -0500
Re: Variable naming issue Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-04-24 17:26 -0700
Re: Variable naming issue maximus fl <ajones2600@gmail.com> - 2017-04-24 18:18 -0700
Re: Variable naming issue scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-04-25 14:48 +0000
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