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		ryao 83 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smar... It uses multiple non-standard extensions to C. A strictly standards conformant compiler would refuse to compile it.

JSR_FDED 83 days ago [–]

That might be an excellent reason not to use some of these capabilities. And maybe in a different situation it would make sense to use the mechanisms provided. Programmer’s responsibility to decide what’s appropriate in each case, that’s all I’m saying.

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