Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!chinet!dag
From: dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C blocks
Message-ID: <1966@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 87 20:12:54 GMT
References: <470@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <470@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> edw@IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU (Eddie Wyatt) writes:
>Could the ANSI committee consider adding return values for blocks?
>If they where added, I could guarentee my macro arguments where only
>evaluated once as they are in function calls.

This is unlikely to make it anywhere into the C language.  It is,
however, a feature of Bliss, which has many of the same design features
and ancestors as C.

Bliss does have a much more powerful macro language too.

Pity Bliss is almost a dead language outside of the walls of DEC.
I think it may be dying inside the walls too.
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					Daniel A. Glasser
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