The idea sounds useful to me .. Or perhaps introduce template into C :)
David On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote: > 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
