Re: C23 thoughts and opinions - why so conservative?

On 24/05/2024 02:06, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 24 May 2024 00:34:24 +0300, Michael S wrote:
 

On Thu, 23 May 2024 22:10:22 +0200 David Brown
<david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
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What program control construct would you like?
>

Ability to break from nested loops.

 At least 90% of the time, when I want to exit from an inner loop in C,
there will be some kind of cleanup I need to do in the outer loop before
that can exit too. So the ability to jump straight out will rarely be
used.

goto gives you the functionality you require.
I usually use goto for handling malloc() failures. So if an allocation fails within a deeply nested loop, I will jump to code at the end of the function, free up amy half-constructed objects, and return an error condition.
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