Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C

Re:Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C by jjnoakes on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @08:00PM (#8235307)

There's an obvious solution to this: have friendly-c compilers accept some declaration silently in a source file:

  !dialect friendly-c

Now, c code can compile as friendly-c code, but explicitly-declared friendly-c code will fail if passed to a normal C compiler.

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Re:Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C by jzwinck on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @10:37PM (#8235679)

Such code would also fail if passed to tools like lint, and would result in warnings or worse when loaded in IDEs. The incredible C toolchain built over the decades is one of C's biggest advantages; friendly-c cannot afford to lose even 10% of it.

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Re:Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C by comex on Thursday August 28, 2014 @12:52AM (#8235930)

So make it a #pragma.

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Re:Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C by ygra on Thursday August 28, 2014 @11:33AM (#8237695)

Then it cannot cause a compile error in standard C.

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