throwaway45074

The (draft) ISO C11 spec is already nearly 700 pages[1]. How can anyone justify adding something like "choose" (a switch() without fall-throughs) to such a language?

Who are these people[2], and what is their mandate? Did they actually consult with the likes of Linus Torvalds, Greg KH, Mike Pall--those who actually use C every single day on mission-critical projects like OS kernels and virtual machines--and ask them what improvements to C they need?

1) http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1548.pdf

2) https://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~cforall/people

And yet all I see on HN is talk about how hiring a single false positive is supposedly so calamitous that it's better to reject (and waste the time of, and insult) tens, hundreds, or even thousands of false negatives.