Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!gamiddleton
From: gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The D Programming Language
Message-ID: <17154@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 29 Feb 88 18:27:07 GMT
References: <11702@brl-adm.ARPA> <243@eagle_snax.UUCP> <2245@geac.UUCP> <24935@cca.CCA.COM> <703@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <24996@cca.CCA.COM>
Reply-To: gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
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In article <24996@cca.CCA.COM> g-rh@CCA.CCA.COM.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes:
> In article <703@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
> >In article <24935@cca.CCA.COM>, g-rh@cca.CCA.COM (Richard Harter) writes:
> >> Here is an alternative to endif et al.  Use labels to start blocks and
> >> 'end labels' to end them....
> 
> >He has just re-invented BCPL.

There is another thing that should be reintroduced:  case ranges in switch
statements.  These were part of B (although they were not in BCPL):

	switch (x) {
	    case <0:	/* ... */
		break;
	    case 0::10:	/* ... */
		break;
	    case >10:	/* ... */
	    default:
	}