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Subject: Re:  strncpy()--why is this in unix-wizards?
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Date: Wed, 14-Sep-83 12:39:50 EDT
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From:  James Bray <jbray@bbn-unix>

I would like to join a discussion of extensions to C if one should start.
Here are some ideas that I have just had lying around in a file:

Needs a "restart" construct to reenter a for loop (as for example when having
slept in it and needing to completely recommence);

Loops of all kinds, and perhaps all scopes, should be nameable. Break,
continue, and the proposed restart could accept these labels as an optional
argument: when used in this way, it would indicate that the desired action be
performed on the given scope, with the default being as for the current usage;

These are a couple of ideas which might help C to become a genuinely goto-less
language. They should reduce or eliminate the need for "goto loop" and
"goto out" which one sees so often in the kernel.

--Jim Bray