Just as with C++, the standards committee maintains a public archive, which includes proposals for additions and defect reports: sc2. (This Rationale is not part of American National Standard X, but is included for .. Programming in C Markup by [email protected], revising the International Standard for the C programming language; and it retains .. not a rationale for the C language as a whole: the C89 Committee was .
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But I can’t seem to find any rationale for why that design choice was made. This is just quotations from the introduction part of the C99 Rationale. Peter’s paragraph beginning “Before ” and the next covers my point in slightly different wording; I don’t think there’s a need to edit his answer to cover my point.
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Retrieved 25 September Retrieved 4 Feb I totally find those believable based on what I know, but it would reinforce the parts that are the most likely to feel the most “un-objective” to some. The only people who can answer this are the authors, anyone else would rationael be speculating. Many standards can be ordered from good technical booksellers, such as Opamp. Either way, unless something better comes along, I will accept this answer in another day or so.
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In particular, a declaration that lacks a type specifier no longer has int implicitly assumed. Many people who criticize the C programming language, do not understand its goals. It incorporates TCs Technical Corrigenda and does not introduce new language features. Free Software Foundation, Inc.
The closest thing to an answer I seem to find is this answer explaining how mixing declarations and code was prohibited in order to allow for compilers to be single-pass back when that was important. Oct 20 ’15 at Retrieved 14 October Contents 1 The Standard 1. An example of this willingness to live with what the machine does can be seen in the rules that govern the c9 of char objects for use in expressions: The latest defect report summary for C11 is available at n Retrieved 14 September IEEE floating point not fully supported.
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The design comittee for the C99 standard declared eleven principles to guide the process. It appeared pretty early on e. As to how things evolved As romantic as it may seem to believe the designers Kernighan, Ritchie, etc thought of all the possibilities, and rationae features only after deep and meaningful consideration, the reality is that the early years of designing C like quite a few other programming languages followed a much more humble philosophy something like “Start small, don’t sweat about adding features unless programmers are being Tationale from doing something”.
That discussion was often mostly along the lines of “would anything else in C break if we added this? Before C99, C did not allow you to define variables except at the start of a block. This page was last edited on 28 Decemberat However, they are enabled only through the undocumented command-line switch “-za99”. Retrieved 31 January C99 introduced several new features, many of which had already been implemented as extensions in several compilers: Keep the language small and simple.
I wish compiler writers would recognize that Undefined Behavior was meant as an invitation for compiler ratiknale to use judgment with regard to precedents and the needs of programmers which would often vary depending upon target platform and application fieldrather than as an invitation to throw judgment out the window.
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Retrieved from ” http: Here’s an example of a case where it’s useful: The rationale contains more details. Additionally, some features such as extended integer types and new library functions must be provided by the C standard library and are out of scope for GCC.
Obviously the original creators, and then the pre-C99 standardizations, didn’t specify it that way.
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My question is, what is rationale for allowing tentative definitions? It is just about practice and experience.
You are really genius.