Meaning of "length", "size", and "count"

2024-10-09 Thread Jakub Łukasiewicz
On 2024-10-09 20:48 CEST, Alejandro Colomar wrote: countof() is a new term, so it doesn't yet have a meaning (except as given by the attribute), but it naturally fits more with number of elements. How would you call, for example, a function that returns how many times a value is contained in

Re: [PATCH v13 0/4] c: Add __lengthof__ operator

2024-10-08 Thread Jakub Łukasiewicz
Yup :) For example that ~ J.Ł. On 2024-10-08 10:33 CEST, Alejandro Colomar wrote: Hi Jakub, On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 10:25:24AM GMT, Jakub Łukasiewicz wrote: > I think it would be beneficial to have different syntax/spelling for > features still in development. That way we, as a com

Re: [PATCH v13 0/4] c: Add __lengthof__ operator

2024-10-08 Thread Jakub Łukasiewicz
I think it would be beneficial to have different syntax/spelling for features still in development. That way we, as a committee, can tweak it as we please, while mitigating effect on early adopters. If what ends in final document is exactly the same as in early phrases, then great, all users a