Re: C23 thoughts and opinions - why so conservative?

On Thu, 23 May 2024 14:38:23 -0700
Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:

Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:

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. 

>
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. 

 
Which is?
 
New keywords are typically prefixed by an underscore and an upper case
letter, such as C11's "_Generic".  There are no (standard) keywords
starting with "__".
 

You are right. I confused Standard C language with
implementation-defined extensions.

But the point stands: in recent times Committee is (to my liking) not
sufficiently conservative in adding keywords that do not start with the
underscore followed by uppercase.