On Tuesday, 18 November 2014 at 23:48:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 11/18/2014 1:23 PM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad"
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com>" wrote:
I am arguing against the position that it was a design mistake
to keep the
semantic model simple and with few presumptions. On the
contrary, it was the
design goal. Another goal for a language like C is ease of
implementation so
that you can easily port it to new hardware.
The proposals I made do not change that in any way, and if K&R
designed C without those mistakes, it would have not made C
more complex in the slightest.
VLAs have been available in gcc for a long time. They are not
useless, I've used
them from time to time.
I know you're simply being argumentative when you defend VLAs,
a complex and useless feature, and denigrate simple ptr/length
pairs as complicated.
Argumentative ?!! More like a fucking gaping fucking asshole. His
posts are the blight of this group.
