On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Stefan Tauner < stefan.tauner@alumni.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 09:09:48 +0100 Gerd Hoffmann kraxel@redhat.com wrote:
On Di, 2016-11-29 at 00:41 +0100, Stefan Tauner wrote:
Paul can you please - without looking it up - name two new features of C99 compared to C89?
Named initializers. That alone is reason enough to prefer c99 over c89 IMHO.
You are not Paul. I was asking him specifically because I don't think that he could name them but still tries to argue about such things although he is not proficient enough to evaluate the implications of such decisions (and I can't stand that at all). Even with good intentions this is a dangerous approach on improving code quality and needs to be countered.
I prefer Julius's approach of giving a detailed explanation that people reading the list can actually learn from.