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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: transpiling to low level C
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 09:20:23 -0800
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BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> writes:

> On 12/23/2024 1:43 AM, David Brown wrote:
>
>> On 23/12/2024 03:41, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
>>
>>> Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The comments I made here, in two responses to postings of yours,
>>>> were not statements of opinion but statements of fact.
>>>
>>> They are opinions _about facts_, or if you prefer, opinion
>>> about truth value of some statements.
>>
>> You can program in C without the "normal" conditional statements or
>> expressions.  You can make an array of two (or more) function
>> pointers and select between them using your controlling expression,
>> and that should be sufficient for conditionals.  (There may be other
>> methods too.)
>>
>> So as far as I can see, Tim gave statements of fact, not opinion.
>
> Jumping back in:
> That one can do this seems obvious enough;
> Downside, as I see it, is that there is no current or likely
> processor hardware where this is likely to be performance
> competitive with the more traditional if-goto mechanism [...]

Irrelevant to the issue being discussed.