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Re: Candidate fix for PR c/7353
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 07:11:58AM +0100, Neil Booth wrote:
> Richard Henderson wrote:-
>
> > > produces an ICE with all versions of GCC since 3.0. This is an
> > > obscure, rarely-used extension, but if we're going to have it, it
> > > should work.
> >
> > I'm for nuking it myself.
>
> I concur. It's really ugly.
That's putting it lightly. Anybody writing "typedef X = 0;" needs to
be beaten about the head with a broken bottle (for punishment) and then
forced to read K&P's "The Practice of Programming" (for proper re-education).
Phil
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I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How
not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met.
- Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002