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		eviks on Oct 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My personal C coding style as of late 2023 Of course plenty of people are confused, the overhead of "short/long" just makes no sense, but yet another bad design from the past carefully preserved

WalterBright on Oct 9, 2023 [–]

Haven't run into a confused one yet, and D has been around 20 years.

eviks on Oct 11, 2023 | [–]

That's just an indication of who you run into if you've missed people noticing/getting confused by this pretty obvious flaw

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