Re: goto considered helpful

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From	Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 13/12/2024 13:19, David Brown wrote:
>> On 13/12/2024 12:12, bart wrote:
[...]
>>> I've had a quick look through my codebases (not C), and I couldn't
>>> see an example of a numbered break. All I could find was the
>>> equivalant of:
>>>
>>>     break              # the vast majority
>>>     break all
>>>
>>> The latter breaks out of the outermost loop.
>>>
>> So you have a feature (numbered breaks) in your language that you
>> never use, but have been recommending here as a useful addition to
>> C?
>
> I'm saying that if you don't have the general feature, then the more
> limited one might be worth considering, as it will take care of most
> of the use-cases not covered by break.

In current C, we don't have either feature.

I suggest that covering *most* of the use-cases would not be good
enough.  Adding your "break all" to C (defining it in the standard
and implementing it in compilers) would not be significantly easier
than adding "break LABEL".  I see no point in adding a partial
feature when a more complete feature is (a) just as easy, and (b)
has ample precedent in other languages.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */

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