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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, ralph@inputplus.co.uk
Subject: [TUHS] Re: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 04:37:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202303101137.32ABbdfV003111@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230310100855.C74931FBE4@orac.inputplus.co.uk>

Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Werner,
>
> > after a stint in Java with its multilevel break...
>
> Given sh(1)'s break takes an optional number of loops to break out of,
> I'm surprised C stuck with just the single-level break.

C predates the Bourne shell by several years. Remember too that the
C compiler had to fit in a small space; having multilevel or labelled
breaks requires more bookkeeping.

The idea of labelled loops is not at all new, Ada had them in the 80s
and it wasn't new then. IIRC Go also provides them.

Arnold

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-10 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-09 23:01 [TUHS] " Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-03-09 23:18 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-03-09 23:21   ` Warner Losh
2023-03-09 23:31     ` Luther Johnson
2023-03-09 23:44       ` josh
2023-03-09 23:54       ` Warner Losh
2023-03-10  0:54         ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-03-10  1:08           ` Warner Losh
2023-03-10 10:08             ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-10 11:37               ` arnold [this message]
2023-03-10 11:56                 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-10 11:59                   ` arnold
2023-03-10 12:11                     ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-10  6:15     ` Dave Horsfall
2023-03-10 16:55       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-03-10 17:02         ` Bakul Shah
2023-03-12 20:47         ` Dave Horsfall
2023-03-12 21:50           ` Warner Losh
2023-03-12 22:27             ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-03-13  3:09               ` [TUHS] Re: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55thanniversary Dave Horsfall
2023-03-14 19:54                 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-03-10  1:31   ` [TUHS] Re: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary Rich Morin
2023-03-10 11:37 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-10 15:54 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-12  7:39   ` Anthony Martin
2023-03-12 11:40     ` Dan Cross
2023-03-12 16:40       ` Paul Winalski
2023-03-13  3:25       ` John Cowan
2023-03-13 10:40         ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2023-03-13 12:19           ` Dan Cross
2023-03-10 11:51 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-10 14:16 ` Ronald Natalie
2023-03-10 14:39   ` John Cowan
2023-03-10 16:30   ` Phil Budne
2023-03-10 17:50     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-03-10 17:57       ` Paul Winalski
2023-03-10 18:12         ` Lawrence Stewart
2023-03-10 17:28   ` Clem Cole
2023-03-10 17:54     ` Paul Winalski
2023-03-10 15:37 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-10 15:46 ` Larry McVoy
2023-03-10 16:04 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-10 18:55 ` Ron Natalie
2023-03-10 19:04   ` Dan Cross
2023-03-10 19:35     ` segaloco via TUHS

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