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The provenance memory model for C

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224 points HexDecOctBin | 1 comments | 30 Jun 25 09:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.276s | 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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1over137 ◴[30 Jun 25 16:17 UTC] No.44425020[source]▶
Horrific? You might not think so if your (human) language used a different alphabet.
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Joker_vD ◴[30 Jun 25 16:53 UTC] No.44425432[source]▶
My language uses Cyrillic and I personally prefer English-based keywords and variable names precisely because they are not words of my (human) language. It introduces an easy and obvious distinction between the machine-oriented and the human-oriented.
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1. ZoomZoomZoom ◴[30 Jun 25 19:03 UTC] No.44426725[source]▶
I know what you mean and I shudder when I see code that uses words from my native lang, but most code is human-oriented.