Re: [PATCH] strbuf: use designated initializers in STRBUF_INIT

> > I am not sure what negative impact you think the macro-ness would
> > have to the validity of the result from this test balloon.  An old
> > compiler that does not understand designated initializer syntax
> > would fail to compile both the same way, no?
> > 
> > 	struct strbuf buf0 = STRBUF_INIT;
> > 	struct strbuf buf1 = { .alloc = 0, .len = 0, .buf = strbuf_slopbuf };
> 
> I said it is uninteresting, not that there is a negative impact. There is
> simply nothing gained for strbuf users: They would use STRBUF_INIT before
> and after the change and would not benefit from designated initializers.
> 
> This change may serve well as a test balloon, but not as an example of the
> sort of changes that we would want to see later (of the kind "change
> FOO_INIT macro to use designated initializers"; they are just code churn).