On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Charles Kendrick <[email protected]>wrote:
> However as far as the default strategy, the highest value thing to do seems > to me to impose the de-facto standard of 15 years - insertion order - which > is a very useful behavior and will avoid thousands of websites having to > compensate for a change in de-facto standard behavior. > So I suppose you think C should have kept int at 16 bits since there was lots of Win16 code that assumed sizeof(int)==2 because it happened to work on their platform, or likewise sizeof(int)==sizeof(char*)? Things unspecified in the spec mean "unspecified" -- it doesn't mean "rely on whatever behavior the implementation you use exhibits and expect it to be portable". -- John A. Tamplin Software Engineer (GWT), Google
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