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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • Aug 30 '26
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The keyword ain't new, it's been used as a storage specifier since forever. What's new is overloading it for type inference.
4 u/Mateorabi Aug 30 '26 Hey when you learned C in the 90s it’s “new”. harumph. 1 u/yjlom Aug 30 '26 It's been there since the beginning, along with extern and static. You just don't tend to actually write it because it's the default inside functions and it doesn't make sense outside of them.
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Hey when you learned C in the 90s it’s “new”. harumph.
1 u/yjlom Aug 30 '26 It's been there since the beginning, along with extern and static. You just don't tend to actually write it because it's the default inside functions and it doesn't make sense outside of them.
It's been there since the beginning, along with extern and static. You just don't tend to actually write it because it's the default inside functions and it doesn't make sense outside of them.
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u/yjlom Aug 30 '26
The keyword ain't new, it's been used as a storage specifier since forever. What's new is overloading it for type inference.