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From: Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: on allowing "int a" definition everywhere
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 12:40:39 +0200, fir wrote:
> 
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> Somehow along the line from BCPL to B to C, one useful feature was
>>> lost: the ability to have a value-returning statement block inside an
>>> expression.
>>>
>> if so thats probably sad, though i dont know how it looked like
> 
> The construct looks like
> 
>     VALOF $( ... «stmts»; RESULTIS «return-value» $)


So a la GNUC's statement-expressions?  I've heard talks that C2y is likely 
to be the revision that adds lambdas to C¹, so perhaps we'll get it back…
over half a century later.

⸻

¹In addition to subsuming statement-expressions, this would also subsume 
multiple other extensions, particularly GCC's local functions and Clang's 
Blocks.

-- 
Blue-Maned_Hawk│shortens to Hawk│/blu.mɛin.dʰak/│he/him/his/himself/Mr.
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BSD made an attempt to standardize this.  It didn't work.