Re: [Gaim-devel] Proposal to use ISO C named notation for initializing members in gaim source

[Ethan B. <ebl...@cs...>]

Eduardo P=E9rez spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > However, other compilers do not.
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> What compilers?
> And what people are using them to compile gaim?

The  stock  Sun  and SGI compilers on many Solaris and IRIX systems, for
starters, and I'm sure the list goes on and on.

> > C99-isms are bad and should be avoided.
>=20
> Why are C99-isms bad?
> Why should them be avoided?

In  this  case,  I meant because we aren't guaranteed to have a C99 com-
piler on all systems.  In the more general case, because (as Kevin said)
many of the additions encourage ugly, hard-to-read code.  It is my opin-
ion that the few worthy extensions of C99 do  not  outweigh  the  cruft.
(And, some of them are busted to begin with ... viz the for (int i; ...)
construction.)

Ethan

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