Re: support for pre-C99 compilers

Sam Steingold <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.clisp.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> * Bruno Haible <[email protected]> [2017-10-19 22:08:58 +0200]:
>
> Sam wrote:
>> > Anyway, this pre-C99 support is not a lot of trouble.
>> 
>> This prevents us from dumping varbrace, so it's kinda big deal.
>
> No. Until we can also remove 'gctrigger',

How can that ever happen?!

> removing 'varbrace' does not have a significant benefit.

The huge benefit is that C files will look like normal C.
Removing varbrace and comment5 (what does "5" stand for, btw?) is just
as important for CLISP as making cua-mode the default for Emacs. ;-)

> (We had this discussion already.)

yes, and I disagree with you.

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