Re: C23 thoughts and opinions - why so conservative?

Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> writes:
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Having 'constexpr' be classified as a storage class illustrates
how poorly thought out it is.

constexpr is not classified as a storage class.  N3022, like earlier
editions, says there are four storage durations: static, thread,
automatic, and allocated.

The constexpr keyword is treated syntactically as a
storage-class-specifier, for the same reason that typedef is.
It doesn't specify a storage class, but it was a convenient way to
add it to the existing grammar without breaking anything.

Perhaps the syntactic category "storage-class-specifier" should have
been renamed when "typedef" was added to it.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */