I am not that against most of these. However, I don't think I ever will be for using 'auto' in C. Good C is about being extremely clear about what you want to happen at every step. Type inference goes against that imo. If you complain about writing a few more characters I don't think C is the language you are looking for. And I try to not use the "then C is not for you" line very often - I promise.
> [T]hey keep adding features to C, such as type inference [...].
The thing about typeof (and its close cousin auto) is that it exposes information that the compiler’s frontend has to know anyway for type checking. That’s why GCC has had typeof for many years, even back when it only spoke pure C. So while it’s a new feature, it doesn’t really have a lot of implications for the rest of the language.
As far as ISO is concerned, each edition of the C standard is made obsolete by its successor, but that doesn't impose any obligation on you or on compiler writers. If you have gcc, you can still use `gcc -std=c90 -pedantic-errors` (or c99, or c11, or ...).
