Re: C23 thoughts and opinions - why so conservative?

On Fri, 24 May 2024 06:38:18 +0100
Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> wrote:

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:
 

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.
>

Sure, me too. Because that's what I have.
If they hadn't given me {, }, else, while, for, and do then I would
use goto to simulate all those as well. It gives functionality I
require, don't it?

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.
 

I do similar thing too, but that's just a habit that I can't overcome.
It has no practical sense in environments that I work today. I could
just as well return immediately, without cleaning up, it would have
zero practical difference except that my code would be shorter and will
look cleaner.