Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!bbn!ginosko!uunet!mcvax!unido!uniol!henseler From: henseler@uniol.UUCP (Herwig Henseler) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: What I'd really like to see in an if-statement... Message-ID: <747@uniol.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 89 13:15:45 GMT References: <5024@alvin.mcnc.org> <1300@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> <456@helios.prosys.se> <14521@bfmny0.UUCP> <14223@haddock.ima.isc.com> Organization: University of Oldenburg, W-Germany Lines: 30 Hello, world. karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes: > In article <14521@bfmny0.UUCP> tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes: > >It would be fun to have such a thing, it would make expressing lots of ^^^ Oh, boy! I think when ADA was created, everyone said something like "Wouldn't it be fun if ADA has ..". The results is a heavily overloaded language which is *very* hard to learn because of the many ways to express the same thing. A programmer must not only learn how to write a language, but also to *read* programs from others. Therefore you have to know all statements/functions/predicates it offers. > It would "break a lot of things in C"? I admit that "xvalid C, but I seriously doubt that it gets used heavily! That's my opinion. The famous #define makes almost every syntactic sugar possible if *you* want it. > But still, it would be a new wart in a language that already has too many. If > it could be defined in such a way that the language became *simpler*, I'd like > it a lot more. (The ICON semantics come to mind.) Absolute correct. The simpler, the better. (But I've never heard of ICON. What is it?) bye, Herwig -- ** Herwig Henseler (CS-Student) D-2930 Varel, Tweehoernweg 69 | Brain error- ** ** EMail: henseler@uniol.UUCP (..!uunet!unido!uniol!henseler) | core dumped **