Comment by mskslal

An example like that is exactly why, in its current form, it's a bad idea. It's too high level. On the surface it seems like it makes code more consise and elegant, but in reality it just pushes the "ugly" implementation details and allocations onto the compiler. When you start writing code that's phrased in terms of high-level compiler features, rather than in terms of what the computer needs to do, then you're no longer writing C.