From: alexfrunews@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 6:04:20 PM UTC-8, muta...@gmail.com wrote:   
   ...   
   > And also, with the advent of these public domain compilers,   
   > I am willing to upgrade language after about 35 years of   
   > coding to C90 (the ANSI C draft was available earlier than   
   > 1990).   
   >   
   > But I would like to discuss an acceptable language.   
   >   
   > I consider C99 to be an abortion.   
      
   There are some nice and small C99 features:   
   - // comments   
   - __func__   
   - removal of implicit int and implicit function declaration   
     (true abominations/abortions of the early C)   
   - hex floating point constants and %a format conversion specifier   
   -  types and  to go with it   
   - strictly defined signed integer division   
   - declarations (almost) anywhere (including for())   
   - flexible array member at struct's end   
   - non-const initializers of automatic variables   
   - compound literals   
   - designated initializers (specifically, .name=...;   
     go especially well with compound literals)   
   - trailing commas in initializers and enum declarations   
   - inline (most notably in combination with static)   
   - type punning via unions (somewhat better than memcpy())   
   - a few more  functions, in particular, rounding   
     and rounding-like functions   
   - overall improvements in floating point support, including   
     INFINITY, NAN, etc   
   From recent standards it's also nice to have:   
   - anonymous union member   
   - static assertions   
      
   Things I dislike:   
   - old/K&R-style declarations   
   - tentative definitions   
   - variable-length arrays (bad idea to have arbitrarily large   
     stuff on the stack)   
   - too much UB, especially creeping UB, little help from   
     the language proper or its library to deal with UB   
      
   Things I don't care much about:   
   - complex numbers (real scientists may disagree)   
      
   There's more to speak about, but this likely covers most of it.   
      
   Alex   
      
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