"Peter Hermann" <ica2ph@sinus.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> a �crit dans le message de news:bntne8$vtf$1@news.uni-stuttgart.de...
> The reason: any wise programer will stick to the standard for
> portability and will roll own code in case of need.
>
And it's so easy to "roll own code" for the slight minority that needs it that it isn't worth putting into the standard.
This is typically a "nice to have" feature. We had hundreds of "nice to have" features for Ada95 that didn't make it into the
standard, simply because one-week-work * hundreds-of-features would have meant that we wouldn't have Ada95 compilers yet.

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