R A <ren_zokuke...@hotmail.com> writes: >> The gcc developers, and everyone else involved in the development of C >> as a language, are perhaps not superhuman - but I suspect their combined >> knowledge, experience and programming ability outweighs yours. > > given. but do you have a consensus of the community that this feature is not > worth including? i haven't even heard but from a few people saying that "it's > not worth it because if it was, 'we're the ones to have thought about it'". > > computing science (may i call it a science??), is all about objectivity and > examining the theories and evidence. it should be prepared re-examine > everything when a new idea is introduced or challenged. > > so if it's a bad idea, explain to me exactly why; not go about human politics. >
Any gcc developer who feels that this proposal is a good idea, please chime in here. I personally do not feel it is worth the effort. It's easy to use a more powerful macro processor, such as m4, to generate your C code. The benefit of building a more powerful macro processor into the language proper seems minimal. This particular extension seems problematic when cross-compiling. In what environment should the expressions be evaluated? Ian
