Re: on allowing "int a" definition everywhere

Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> writes:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 12:40:39 +0200, fir wrote:
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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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.

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

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The construct looks like
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    VALOF $( ...  <<stmts>>;  RESULTIS <<return-value>> $)

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So a la GNUC's statement-expressions?  I've heard talks that C2y is likely
to be the revision that adds lambdas to C[1], so perhaps we'll get it back?
over half a century later.
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[1]In addition to subsuming statement-expressions, this would also subsume
multiple other extensions, particularly GCC's local functions and Clang's
Blocks.

Not exactly.  There are things that can be done inside a
statement-expression that are not available inside nested
functions or lambdas.