🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <DEt8sr.H0@stdc.demon.co.uk>, clive@demon.net wrote:

> In article <4321kd$cne@news0.rain.rg.net>, Paul Long  <plong@perf.com> wrote:
> [...]
> >    until (<identifier1>, <identifier2>, ... <<identifierN>)
> >        <statement>
> >    then {
> >        <identifier1> => <statement>
> >        <identifier2> => <statement>
> >        ...
> >        <identifierN> => <statement>
> >    }
> 
> Sounds very like:
> 
[kindof-sort-of close to C++, but really not]
> (or whatever the current C++ syntax is).

This is C++:

   try
   {
      if(<condition>)
         throw <class1>;
   }
   catch(<class1>)
   {
      <do something about it using class>
   }
   catch(<class2>)
   {
      <do something else about it using class>
   }

It's actually very similar in practice to what the above
poster is proposing.  Why reinvent an incompatible, less
flexible version of what's already available?  I'd say
leave it alone; ain't within the "spirit of C".  Works
great in C++, though, the spirit of which is more
accomodating to programmer convenience.  Slightly.

-- 
Chris Thomas, ckt@best.com