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Subject: Re: do { quit; } else { }
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2025 16:26:07 +0300
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On Sun, 06 Apr 2025 05:47:47 -0700
Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> wrote:

> Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Em 4/4/2025 5:48 PM, Tim Rentsch escreveu:
> >  
> >> Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> writes:
> >>  
> >>>    What do you think of this control block?
> >>>
> >>>    do
> >>>    {
> >>>       FILE f = fopen("file.txt", "r");
> >>>
> >>>       if (f == NULL) quit; /*goes to else part*/
> >>>
> >>>       /*success here*/
> >>>       for (int i =0; i < 10; i++){
> >>>           ...
> >>>           if (error) quit;
> >>>       }
> >>>
> >>>    }
> >>>    else
> >>>    {
> >>>       /*some error*/
> >>>    }  
> >>
> >> I think it doesn't belong in comp.lang.c.
> >>
> >> I also think you have been participating in comp.lang.c
> >> long enough to know better.  Kindly take your language
> >> fantasies somewhere else.  
> >
> > I think the only reason you're saying that is because it's not
> > implemented in GCC, Clang, or maybe even MSVC.  
> 
> You are wrong.  I responded because there is nothing in
> your posting that is suitable for comp.lang.c.  
> 
> > I've never seen you complain about any GCC extensions here.  
> 
> I don't remember seeing any posting in comp.lang.c that
> discusses a gcc extension and nothing else.  There are
> plenty of postings that mention gcc extensions in passing,
> along with other material that talks about C, but never
> one that discusses gcc extensions exclusively.
> 
> Furthermore, even if there had been a posting that concerns
> only a gcc extension and nothing else, and is one I didn't
> respond to, that doesn't excuse your action.  It isn't like
> this is the first time you have posted something here that
> is not about C but only about your fantasy language, and
> also not the first time the unsuitability of such postings
> has been pointed out.  You're a repeat offender.  So stop
> pretending you are being picked on for no reason.

More interesting question than the one above is: why post of Alexis 
from 3 months ago named "Opinion on defer" is on topic in c.l.c ?
How exactly can we draw a line between two cases?