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Subject: Re: [9front] [PATCH] Fix assert macro to not break on commas
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iyou are quite right, assert() is part of the standard plan9 library, not th=
e language.

however i honestly doubt this has caused a significant number of issues for p=
lan9 programmers. i suggest it is just not worth changing.

i liked the general sentiment of kurt=E2=80=99s comments, but perhaps i am j=
ust a curmudgeon after all.

-Steve


> On 25 Nov 2023, at 8:40 pm, Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> =EF=BB=BFOn Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 3:12=E2=80=AFPM Steve Simon <steve@quintile=
.net> wrote:
>> i strongly agree with kurt.
>>=20
>> this should go into the fortunes file imho.
>>=20
>>> Making the language dumber because someone wants to do something stupid
>>> is the wrong plan.
>=20
> The statement is factually wrong. The language is already the way that
> it is, and this change just makes a macro useful in more contexts;
> that's not "changing the language" unless someone is adding the
> variadic macro stuff to the compilers to do it.
>=20
>        - Dan C.