Additions to C

What do you want in the next C standard? For me it's namespaces, damn they make libraries simple.

To the people who said function overloading, namespaces, templates, containers, higher order functions, garbage collection, coroutines, I say: STFU.  It's C.  Don't try to turn C into C++ or worse.  If you want namespaces, templates, and containers, just write C++... it supports all of those things, right now.  If you don't like the overhead of exceptions then turn them off.  What makes C useful is that it's good at its niche: systems programming, and writing low level code such as codecs.  It's also a great target language for compilers... there are compilers for Lisp, Scheme, Haskell, Objective-C, C++, and more that all target C because C is so light-weight it's practically assembly.  Lots of interpreters are written in C: Python, Ruby, Lua, and Perl come to mind.  None of these would really benefit from the cruft listed above.

To the person who said closures: Yeah, I'd like that too.  Apple did it, looks like it made it into clang and probably will come to GCC too.

My #1 wish for C1X is support for UTF-16 string literals.  And guess what?  I got my wish.  (I read the C1X draft... u"some string" is UTF-16, U"some string" is UTF-32.  sweet.)