Re: Hex string literals (was Re: C23 thoughts and opinions)

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:54:15 +0200, David Brown wrote:

... C++ could not use underscores
due to their use in user-defined literals, and C followed C++.

>
C can still offer the option for them, though.

As of the new C23 standard (not yet officially published) C *already*
uses apostrophes as digit separators.  I would have preferred
underscores to apostrophes myself, but allowing both would be worse.

And C might want to introduce something similar to C++'s user-defined
literals some day.

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