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Re:The joy of max() by psyc on Saturday March 31, 2018 @01:49PM (#16724291)
I'm 100% on board with this. I think big low-level projects, including AAA games (my field) would benefit by treating the compiler exactly like a dependency they have the source for. We might stumble on very good language evolutions as a side effect.
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Re:The joy of max() by kzrdude on Saturday March 31, 2018 @04:23PM (#16725002)
Don't we risk losing something if everyone is using their own dialect of the language?
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Re:The joy of max() by psyc on Saturday March 31, 2018 @04:36PM (#16725049)
I don't think so. But you're safe, nobody will do this.
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Re:The joy of max() by paulddraper on Sunday April 01, 2018 @04:08PM (#16730161)
Yes.

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