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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: What should be added to C
Message-ID: <1498@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-May-86 22:10:39 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 22 22:10:39 1986
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Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
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In article <1497@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>In article <5498@alice.uUCp> ark@alice.UUCP writes:
>>Frank Adams says:
>>> o Any sort of multi-level break statement.  There is no syntacticly clean
>>> way of adding this to C.
>>
>>C already has a multi-level break statement.  It's spelled "goto."
>>Putting a goto in a costume doesn't disguise it.
>
>You weren't reading very carefully.  This was on my list of things which
>should *not* be added.

My apologies.  This was *intended* to be on the list of things which should
not be added.  However, it inadvertently got put on the wrong list.  As I
said, there is no syntactically clean way of adding this feature.

Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108