Re: encapsulating directory operations

On 30/05/2025 15:02, David Brown wrote:

On 30/05/2025 12:54, Richard Heathfield wrote:

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Obviously it's a contrived example, but then examples pointing out the consequences of language differences invariably are.
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 The analogy there is like complaining you can't use the back end of your new spanner to hammer in nails, because it now has a box/ring at the end.

Your argument now appears to be that people wouldn't need C90 if only they'd written their C90 in such a way that C99 would have met their needs.
This is undoubtedly the case.
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