On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 1:05 PM Alejandro Colomar via Gcc <gcc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi! > > I'll probably have to release again before the Debian freeze of Bookworm. > That's something I didn't want to do, but there's some important bug that > affects downstream projects (translation pages), and I need to release. It's a > bit weird that the bug has been reported now, because it has always been there > (it's not a regression), but still, I want to address it before the next Debian. > > And I don't want to start with stable releases, so I won't be releasing > man-pages-6.01.1. That means that all changes that I have in the project that I > didn't plan to release until 2024 will be released in a few weeks, notably > including the VLA syntax. > > This means that while this syntax is still an invent, not something real that > can be used, I need to be careful about the future if I plan to make it public > so soon. > > Since we've seen that using a '.' prefix seems to be problematic because of > lookahead, and recently Michael Matz proposed using a different punctuator (he > proposed '@') for differentiating parameters from struct members, I think going > in that direction may be a good idea. > > How about '$'? $ is a GNU extension for identifiers already. See https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-12.2.0/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar-Signs Thanks, Andrew > > It's been used for function parameters since... forever? in sh(1). And it's > being added to the source character set in C23, so it seems to be a good choice. > It should also be intuitive what it means. > > What do you think about it? I'm not asking for your opinion about adding it to > GCC, but rather for replacing the current '.' in the man-pages before I release > later this month. Do you think I should apply that change? > > Cheers, > > Alex > > > -- > <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
