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The provenance memory model for C

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224 points HexDecOctBin | 2 comments | 30 Jun 25 09:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.007s | source
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smcameron ◴[30 Jun 25 16:04 UTC] No.44424882[source]▶
Ugh. Are unicode variable names allowed in C now? That's horrific.
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loeg ◴[30 Jun 25 18:00 UTC] No.44426140[source]▶
Math people shouldn't be allowed to write code. It's not the unicode, so much as the extremely terse variable names.
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1. perching_aix ◴[30 Jun 25 18:04 UTC] No.44426182[source]▶
Isn't that basically all C/C++ code? Admittedly I don't have much exposure to it, but it's pretty much a trope in and of itself, along with Java and C# suffering from the opposite problem.

Such a silly issue too, you'd think we'd have come up with some automated wrangling for this, so that those experienced with a codebase can switch over and see super short versions of identifiers, while people new to it all will see the long stuff.

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2. flohofwoe ◴[30 Jun 25 22:45 UTC] No.44428726[source]▶
> Isn't that basically all C/C++ code?

Maybe for code that was written in the early 90's, but the only 'tradition' that has survived is calling the vanilla loop variable 'i'.