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Perpetual Motion finally achieved! (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That and the weird aversion to introducing new or useful keywords, or even extending the symbol set that doesn't even use full ASCII.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Word! The whole snafu with co_routines has been quite the laughable show. It would have been trivially sortable if C++ did something like what PHP did, using a symbol to absolutely disambiguate what is a variable and what is not. That way eg.: await is a keyword, $await is a variable (perhaps a functor).

To make it even better, $ is already unused in C++!