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

On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 17:57:22 +1100
Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,
 
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:
 
"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."
 
-- https://thephd.dev/the-big-array-size-survey-for-c-results
 
 
Alexis.

Majority is wrong. What's new?
In the absence of BDFL we have to live with it.