From: utzoo!decvax!cca!fortune!mathon
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: C extensions
Article-I.D.: fortune.648
Posted: Sat Oct 30 14:12:54 1982
Received: Mon Nov  1 01:20:37 1982
References: eagle.553 hou5a.161

What would I not like to see in C:
	Overloading Ops.  Ba Humbug!  This is the worst feature of ADA.
	How can we do it to C?
	Complex data.  It makes the language too big and drives it to 
	The pre-processor.  It's ugly.  I would like to see language
	constructs to replace pre-processor commands.
What I would like to see in C:
	In-line functions.  The code for these functions the user wrote
	would be done in-line.
	Enumerated types.  Only as long as I can read/write them also.
	A looping construct that will take advantage of almost all 
	computers looping instructions.  E.g. loop(param, iters) 
	would use dbcc on 68000 and whatever elsewhere to loop on the
	variable param iters times.
	A way to tell the compiler that a variable was not pointed to 
	so that modern optimizing schemes could be used to figure
	common subexpressions and invariant code and register optimization
	better.

I feel all these changes are consistent with the original goals of C and
keep it a language close to the machine with no built-in functions and
a simple syntax.
Comments?