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The lost language extensions of MetaWare's High C compiler (2023)


This book I got in a pile of FM TOWNS books turns out to be a lot more interesting that I was expecting an '80s C compiler manual to be. For as long as C and its relatives have been in mainstream use,…

It's a little thing, but it always bothers me when a programming language doesn't let you write long numeric literals with separators to make it readable. Pascal lets you match a range of values with case low..high; wouldn't it be great if C had that feature? On the caller's side, a for loop's body is transformed into a nested function, which is passed as the yield argument to the generator.

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