The (draft) ISO C11 spec is already nearly 700 pages[1]. How can anyone justify adding something like "choose" (a switch() without fall-throughs) to such a language? Who are these people[2], and what is their mandate?…
And yet all I see on HN is talk about how hiring a single false positive is supposedly so calamitous that it's better to reject (and waste the time of, and insult) tens, hundreds, or even thousands of false negatives.
The (draft) ISO C11 spec is already nearly 700 pages[1]. How can anyone justify adding something like "choose" (a switch() without fall-throughs) to such a language? Who are these people[2], and what is their mandate?…
And yet all I see on HN is talk about how hiring a single false positive is supposedly so calamitous that it's better to reject (and waste the time of, and insult) tens, hundreds, or even thousands of false negatives.