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saejox on Oct 23, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Deep C and C++ (2011)

All of the quirks listed have good reasons to exist. Except size_t, that never makes sense.

pcwalton on Oct 23, 2013 [–]

I don't agree. Just a few slides in, what good is "functions don't have to return a value explicitly, even if declared as returning non-void" (a priori, I mean—not counting backwards compatibility as a reason)?

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