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Re: Minimum/maximum operators are deprecated?
"Giovanni Bajo" <giovannibajo@libero.it> writes:
> Steven Bosscher <stevenb@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > It was an ill-defined and poorly maintained language extension that
> > was broken in many cases.
> That's an overstatement. I've been using it for years without any
> problem, and was very deprived by its removal, though I can
> understand the "we don't want extensions" reason. But that's really
> the only compelling one that prompted its removal.
It's quite common that extensions "work just fine" except maybe for "a
few rare cases" for some people and "are horribly broken" with "severe
design flaws" for other people.
This follows the 99% rule of compiler design, which is that if a
design 99% works, you'll get 100% more bug reports from 1% of your
users.