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

On 6/21/24 03:13, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 10:49:24 +0200, David Brown wrote:

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Sometimes it makes sense for C to do the same thing in a different way
from C++ - but it is rare, and needs very strong justification.

 
The fact that it is something of a de-facto standard among other popular
languages would count.
 
Is C doomed to remain forever a strict subset of C++?

C is not now, nor has it ever been, a strict subset of C++, so it seems
unlikely that it is doomed to become one. C++ was initially intended to
be an extension to C, and a desire to maintain backwards compatibility
with C played a role in many of the design decisions for C++. Nowadays,
the C committee and C++ committee have agreed to a policy of avoiding
incompatibilities with each other. That doesn't mean that there should
be no incompatibilities, only that they need to be strongly motivated.