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Re:Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative langu... by lerno on Friday April 04, 2025 @04:32AM (#43579667)
If I would have liked, I could have done something like `import std::io::file as file;` but I noticed that we keep getting this issue that we’re renaming things all of the time, and usually in the same way. This is why path shortening is there. To directly get something like the informal `file_open` namespacing in C programs.
Re:Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative langu... by Joshringuk on Friday April 04, 2025 @03:29PM (#43586723)
Standardisation of code and examples across codebases is a nice result of this too. This makes the code easier to learn and share