From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 09:30:38 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TUHS] Comments on "C" Message-ID: <20160908133038.CF61818C0CB@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> > From: Blake McBride > After about 30 years of C, there are only three things I would have > liked to see: > 1. Computed goto Can't you make a switch statement do what you need there? The two things I really missed were: - BCPL's ValOf/ResultIs, for making more complex macros (although with the latest modern compilers, which inline small functions, this is less of an issue) - The ability to 'break' out of more than one level of nesting; one either has to stand on one's head (code-wise), or use a goto Noel