Re: Results of survey re. a new array size operator

On 2025-01-24, Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> wrote:
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Hi all,
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JeanHeyd Meneide, a Project Editor for WG14, has just posted the
results of a survey re. the preferred form of a new array size
operator:
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"There is a clear preference for a lowercase keyword, here, though
it is not by the biggest margin.  One would imagine that with the
way we keep standardizing things since C89 (starting with _Keyword
and then adding a header with a macro) that C folks would be
overwhelmingly in favor of simply continuing that style.  The graph
here, however, tells a different story:  while there's a large
contingency that clearly hates having _Keyword by itself, it's not
the _Keyword + stdkeyword.h macro that comes out on top!  It's just
having a plain lowercase keyword, instead."

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The best way to have versioning for this in a C compiler is a
language dialect selection option.  [...]