Your prochronistic expression is why front ends is developed. The purpose of the GCC engine is to make anachronistic futuristic code executable by means of a front-end, not to implement every star-trek expression.
Why having this pointless conversation, the Titanic has left the port. On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 2:16 PM, Nathan Sidwell <nat...@acm.org> wrote: > On 03/29/2018 09:48 AM, Jeff Law wrote: >> >> On 03/29/2018 12:56 AM, Andre Groenewald wrote: > > >>> GCC steering community I count on you and speaking behalf other >>> developers to keep GCC as close to C as possible for at least the next >>> 1000 years. >> >> We've already made a decision to use C++ when it makes sense. That ship >> sailed years ago. > > > Yeah, when can I write something as anachronistically futuristic as: > > v.qsort ([](auto a, auto b) > { return int (**(Obj const *const *)a > <=> **(Obj const *const*)b); }); > > huh? > > nathan > -- > Nathan Sidwell