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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The D Programming Language
Message-ID: <729@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 88 00:37:23 GMT
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Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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In article <25203@cca.CCA.COM>, g-rh@cca.CCA.COM (Richard Harter) writes:
> 	If one is really concerned about the dangling else problem there
> is a very simple solution -- use different keywords for two sided if's and
> one sided if's.

BCPL did this:  TEST is the two-armed version, and IF the one-armed one.
There was presumably a reason why C did not inherit this feature;
does anyone know what the reason was?