Am Donnerstag, dem 08.08.2024 um 18:23 +0200 schrieb Jens Gustedt: > As said, even if we don't consider this problematic because we are used to > the mildly complex case distinction that you just exposed over several > paragraphs, it doesn't mean that we should > do it, nor does it mean that it would be beneficial for our users or for > other implementations that would like to follow. > > And also as said, all other features in the standard, being types, typeof, or > expressions, e.g offsetof, unreachable or other gnu extensions,Ā don't have > nor need this kind of syntax. > > We should be designing features for the future, not the past
While not problematic for parsing, I see now how the grammar becomes better if we eliminated this quirk. Thanks! But we should then deprecate this for sizeof too. Martin > > Jens
