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		majewsky on Nov 21, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What is “:-!!” in C code? Why should it "have to"? (Honest question, I'm certainly not advocating keeping old styles for the heck of it.)

marcosdumay on Nov 21, 2016 [–]

Old styes have a cost, and old compilers are not used very often.

At some point, even for a compatibility focused project like Linux, that cost must get too big for the benefit it provides.

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