Re: What's new in C?

From	"BartC" <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject	Re: What's new in C?
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Date	2012-12-05 01:42 +0000

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"glen herrmannsfeldt" <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote in message
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> Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:

>>> (PL/I has BEGIN blocks such that you can allocate inside a procedure,
>>> but C doesn't have those.)
>
>> I once knew some PL/I but it did not stick (so I may not be
>> understanding you point), but what you describe sounds very much like C:
>
> PL/I has DO, which groups statements but isn't a scoping level,
> and BEGIN which is. I had thought { } was more like DO.

So did I. And I still consider it like that. It was bad enough (until
recently anyway) to spend considerable amounts of time creating and
uncreating braces, without having worrying about inserting, deleting, 
temporarily storing and then restoring all these block declarations too.

-- 
Bartc

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What's new in C? Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2012-11-28 19:41 -0700
  Re: What's new in C? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-11-28 19:15 -0800
    Re: What's new in C? Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2012-12-06 02:43 -0700
      Re: What's new in C? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-12-06 07:45 -0500
  Re: What's new in C? Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2012-11-29 10:36 +0100
    Re: What's new in C? Weland <weland@sdf.lonestar.org> - 2012-11-29 10:17 +0000
    Re: What's new in C? Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2012-12-04 01:45 -0700
  Re: What's new in C? Weland <weland@sdf.lonestar.org> - 2012-11-29 09:48 +0000
    Re: What's new in C? David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2012-11-29 13:50 +0100
  Re: What's new in C? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-11-29 05:55 -0800
    Re: What's new in C? Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-11-29 12:48 -0600
      Re: What's new in C? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-11-30 10:46 +0000
        Re: What's new in C? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-11-30 05:31 -0800
          Re: What's new in C? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-11-30 14:22 +0000
          Re: What's new in C? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-11-30 15:04 +0000
            Re: What's new in C? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-11-30 16:41 +0000
              Re: What's new in C? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-11-30 11:49 -0500
              Re: What's new in C? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-11-30 10:12 -0800
              Re: What's new in C? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-11-30 11:12 -0800
                Re: What's new in C? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-11-30 22:26 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-11-30 22:36 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-11-30 23:27 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2012-12-04 01:39 -0700
                Re: What's new in C? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-12-04 00:43 -0800
                Re: What's new in C? Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2012-12-04 03:14 -0700
                Re: What's new in C? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-12-04 12:50 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-12-04 05:54 -0800
                Re: What's new in C? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-12-04 20:51 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-12-04 16:09 -0500
                Re: What's new in C? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-12-04 16:19 -0500
                Re: What's new in C? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-12-04 21:45 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-12-05 01:13 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-12-04 20:36 -0500
                Re: What's new in C? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-12-04 20:26 -0600
                Re: What's new in C? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-12-04 18:48 -0800
                Re: What's new in C? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-12-05 02:57 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-12-05 01:42 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2012-12-06 02:06 -0700
                Re: What's new in C? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-12-06 07:50 -0500
                Re: What's new in C? JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2012-12-06 13:46 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-12-06 09:39 -0500
              Re: What's new in C? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-11-30 15:52 -0500
                Re: What's new in C? Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2012-12-04 01:53 -0700
                Re: What's new in C? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-12-04 08:16 -0500
                Re: What's new in C? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-12-04 21:18 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-12-04 18:04 -0500
                Re: What's new in C? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-12-05 01:19 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-12-04 21:05 -0500
                Re: What's new in C? Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2012-12-05 16:45 +0100
                Re: What's new in C? Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2012-12-06 01:45 -0700
                Re: What's new in C? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-12-06 08:12 -0500
                Re: What's new in C? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-12-06 21:13 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-12-06 09:15 -0500
                Re: What's new in C? Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2012-12-12 18:28 -0700
        Re: What's new in C? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-11-30 11:22 -0800
          Re: What's new in C? Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2012-12-04 03:04 -0700
  Re: What's new in C? Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-11-29 18:19 +0000
    Re: What's new in C? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-11-29 11:41 -0800
  Re: What's new in C? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-11-30 20:50 +0000
    Re: What's new in C? Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2012-11-30 23:35 +0100
      Re: What's new in C? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-12-05 03:26 +0000
        Re: What's new in C? gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-12-05 23:49 -0800
          Re: What's new in C? Cal Dershowitz <cal@example.invalid> - 2012-12-06 01:49 -0700
          Re: What's new in C? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-12-08 07:55 +0000
            Re: What's new in C? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-12-08 13:29 +0000
              Re: What's new in C? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-12-08 15:23 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? Martin Shobe <martin.shobe@yahoo.com> - 2012-12-08 17:46 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-12-08 10:45 -0800
                Re: What's new in C? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-12-08 19:32 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-12-08 18:55 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-12-09 08:26 +1300
                Re: What's new in C? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-12-08 20:12 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-12-09 09:18 +1300
                Re: What's new in C? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-12-08 21:21 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-12-09 10:27 +1300
                Re: What's new in C? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-12-08 13:36 -0800
                Re: What's new in C? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-12-08 12:59 -0800
                Re: What's new in C? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-12-08 22:10 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-12-08 16:15 -0800
                Re: What's new in C? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-12-09 14:23 +1300
                Re: What's new in C? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-12-09 14:20 +1300
                Re: What's new in C? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-12-08 11:32 -0800
                Re: What's new in C? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-12-09 02:52 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-12-09 02:53 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-12-08 20:08 +0000
                Re: What's new in C? "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-12-08 20:25 +0000

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