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Comment on an ambiguity in C89 which will never be fixedparent

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What language doesn’t have its own set of absolutely monstrous footguns? https://github.com/denysdovhan/wtfjs - https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31216080 - https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-08-16-go-pitfalls/ are all examples of pitfalls of a few languages.

I’m not going to defend all of the ones C(++) has but stuff like deref’ing null or integer overflow or out of bounds access has its roots in sanity, it just looks insane today. There are tools for many/most of these and if you’re not using them you’re doing it wrong.

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