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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: Why not C99 designated initializer syntax? |
| Date: | Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:29:15 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 |
On 12/12/2016 01:56 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
Why are we writing code like this?
Because I remembered the old GNU C syntax, and forgot that C99 standardized on a different syntax. Sorry about that. Should be fixed now.
It is amusing that nobody noticed until now. I guess GNU C syntax is pretty widely supported, even among non-GNU compilers.
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