Re: C23 thoughts and opinions - why so conservative?

On Wed, 22 May 2024 18:55:36 +0200
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:

In an attempt to bring some topicality to the group, has anyone
started using, or considering, C23 ?  There's quite a lot of change
in it, especially compared to the minor changes in C17.
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Why C Standard Committee, while being recently quite liberal in field
of introducing new keywords (too liberal for my liking, many new things
do not really deserve keywords not prefixed by __) is so conservative
in introduction of program control constructs? I don't remember any
new program control introduced under Committee regime.
And I want at least one.


Another area that was mostly unchanged since 1st edition of K&R is
storage classes. Even such obvious thing as removal of 'auto' class
took too long. If I am not mistaken, totally obsolete 'register' class
is still allowed. And I don't remember any additions.
Personally I can think about at least two useful backward-compatible
additions in that area.