Re: on allowing "int a" definition everywhere

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 12:40:39 +0200, fir wrote:
 

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>

Somehow along the line from BCPL to B to C, one useful feature was
lost: the ability to have a value-returning statement block inside an
expression.
>

if so thats probably sad, though i dont know how it looked like

 
The construct looks like
 
    VALOF $( ... «stmts»; RESULTIS «return-value» $)

So a la GNUC's statement-expressions?  I've heard talks that C2y is likely
to be the revision that adds lambdas to C¹, so perhaps we'll get it back…
over half a century later.

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¹In addition to subsuming statement-expressions, this would also subsume
multiple other extensions, particularly GCC's local functions and Clang's
Blocks.

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