Comment by Quarrel

It certainly seems to me that using this would eliminate 75% or so of the objections to it.

For this use case, at least, it feels like a CS version of racism. MSFT is bad, so no MSFT.

It largely clears up an idiosyncrasy from the evolution of C.

(but, as someone that briefly worked on plan9 in 1995/96, I like your idea :)