Questions tagged [rationale]
Rationale questions ask for the reasoning or rationale of a certain feature, or lack thereof, in a programming language.
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Rationale for requiring struct prefix in C
In C, if you declare a struct like:
struct point {
int x, y;
};
you also have to use ...
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Why is type-punning at compile-time a no-go?
More on the topic of type-punning being problematic:
C23 added constexpr and new rules as to how compile-time constants can be created and handled. We can now ...
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