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Re:Progress on C23 by setpatchaddress on Monday September 06, 2021 @02:08AM (#28430893)
I’ve used them for almost 20 years in Ruby, several years in Swift. I do find them useful in those contexts.

I haven’t used the C2x version, but one thing I expect them to be useful for is self-documentation of enums representing bitmask values.

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Re:Progress on C23 by WalterBright on Monday September 06, 2021 @04:26AM (#28431618)
> useful for is self-documentation of enums representing bitmask values.

I used to do that, and wound up back using hex. Hex is easier to read for me, as I don't have to count the digits.

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