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by WalterBright 521 days ago
I do understand the resistance. C is a simple, comfortable language, and its adherents want it to stay that way, warts and all.

But in the context of that, what baffles me is the additions to the C Standard, such as useless (but complicated!) things like normalized Unicode identifiers, things with very marginal utility like generic functions, etc. Why those and not forward declarations?