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Re: Pretty.c

#2
Wow, neat! The wildest part to me is

> And it’s backwards-compatible with C and all of its libraries!

I can't wait to give it a shot! This looks like a riot.

Re: Pretty.c

#3
Is it possible to tangle the Readme into pretty.h? In other words, are the codeblocks in the orgfile exhaustive.

I love the literate way you have explained your thought process in the readme.

Re: Pretty.c

#6
> turn any codebase into a beginner friendly one

Okay then.

I was hoping to see a “this is just for fun” disclaimer but didn’t see one. Please never actually use this in a project that other people will have to read or contribute to.

Re: Pretty.c

#7
post #6

> turn any codebase into a beginner friendly one Okay then. I was hoping to see a “this is just for fun” disclaimer but didn’t see one. Please never actually use this in a project that other people will have to read or contribute to.

> Provide so much syntactic sugar as to cause any C developer a diabetes-induced heart attack.

seems like its obvious to me that its a joke

Re: Pretty.c

#10
I'm reminded of the guy who did

    #define BEGIN {
    #define END }
and a whole bunch of other macro-larkey just to make C look more like Pascal. Only then would he deign to code in it.
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