From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7871fcf50704262154s5941ea83p72b2d7b2fd9ad2f8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:54:31 -0400 From: "Joel C. Salomon" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 506fd760-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 4/26/07, erik quanstrom wrote: > are these c99 "features" from /sys/src/cmd/cc/c99 really features > or are they "unwanted"? > > 11. _Complex, _Imaginary, _Bool That'd be a question for the HPC people; ron, do you miss complex types in 9c? _Bool is a notational convenience, maybe helping document functions returning only pass/fail status, or for the isalpha(2) family of functions. > 18. Notation for universal characters \uXXXX For the characters in Plan 9's char set, it's unneeded; you can type the character in as many keystrokes (Alt, X, xxxx). For characters outside Unicode's BMP, it's not terribly helpful, since Plan 9 doesn't understand them at all. That said, these universal characters aren't hard to implement at all. Come semester's end and I'll submit a patch to add them to the lexer.