>>18The result of such changes would not be C anymore. To quote from the C99 standard:
There are many facets of the spirit of C, but the essence is a community sentiment of the underlying principles upon which the C language is based. Some of the facets of the spirit of C can be summarized in phrases like:
Trust the programmer.
Don’t prevent the programmer from doing what needs to be done.
Keep the language small and simple.
Provide only one way to do an operation.
Make it fast, even if it is not guaranteed to be portable.