Comment by f1shy

Thank you! Because I wanted to point exactly that. When I was very junior programmer, and coded alone, I used to have “that elemental header” where lots of things were inside. Many of them to convert C in what I wished it was.

Now I think is between no good idea, and absolutely awful.

Yes, sometimes you wish some thing were different in a programming language “if only these types had shorter names”. But when you work in a team, first you should have consensus, and then modifying the language becomes a heavy load, that every new person in the project will have to lift.

“Modifying C is porting the Lisp curse to C” is my motto. Use all as standard, vanilla as possible.