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Subject: Re: [std-proposals] More flexible break statements.

From: Hyman Rosen (hyrosen_at_[hidden])

Date: 2019-08-16 17:37:02

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 5:47 PM Tony V E via Std-Proposals <

std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:



> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 4:30 PM Tae Lim Kook via Std-Proposals <

> std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>

>> > Yeah, well, these ideas pop up every now and then. A paper containing

>> > them, http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n3879.pdf

>> ,

>> > was discussed and rejected in Rapperswil 2014.

>> Is there a reason that the proposal above was rejected?

>

> "We need another control flow statement like we need another hole in our

> heads" - Bjarne Stroustrup

> (paraphrased)

>



This is so obviously the right thing to do that I'm confident that the

design of C++ is in the wrong hands, and has been for a long time.

There is nothing to be done unless an insurrection of people fed up

with the status quo join the committee and change its direction.



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