“gcc will quietly break nearly half of all the packages that it compiles”

Re:“gcc will quietly break nearly half of all the packages t... by snarfy on Sunday October 25, 2015 @11:47AM (#10447169)

I'm a fan of fluent design myself, and dislike flags.

    return foo().baz().bar();

With flags you start with success/fail, and end up with HRESULT.

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Re:“gcc will quietly break nearly half of all the packages t... by copsarebastards on Monday October 26, 2015 @04:21PM (#10454170)

I'd agree with you in some languages, but in C this would be prohibitively difficult. In general, good fluent design uses immutable objects, which makes it basically just a syntactic sugar for functional programming. While fluent syntax is nice, the functional semantics are the real value, and are much easier to do in C (although, as soon as you add in memory management, functional programming often becomes prohibitively difficult too).

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