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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C blocks
Message-ID: <6890@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 20 Dec 87 01:32:04 GMT
References: <470@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <1966@chinet.UUCP> <970@csun.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <970@csun.UUCP> aeusemrs@csun.UUCP (Mike Stump) writes:
>Nice, I think they missed something though because they do not appear to
>want the more general form:
>#define max(a, b) ({int _a=(a), _b=(b); return _a > _b ? _a : _b; })

But "return" already has meaning inside a block, so trying to use it
for some other purpose is potentially confusing, at least.

C as it has existed for quite some time now uses both expressions AND
statements.  Perhaps when you design the language "D" you can change
this.