Am Mittwoch, dem 14.08.2024 um 14:52 +0000 schrieb Ballman, Aaron:
> > I would love to see a proposal for adding this GNU extension to ISO C.
> > Did nobody do it yet? I could try to, if I find some time. (But I'll take
> > a longish time for that; if anyone else
> > does it, it would be
> great.)
>
> It's been discussed but hasn't moved forward because there are design issues
> with it (the odd way in which it produces
> a resulting value, sometimes surprising behavior with how it interacts with
> flow control, the fact that it can't be
> used in all contexts, etc). The committee was leaning more towards lambdas
> despite those being a bit orthogonal.
I do not think this is a fair characterization. We did not see any proposal
for ({ }) so it is not clear where the committee is leaning more towards.
Lambdas ultimately failed because they were too complex for notÂ
having any implementation and user experience in C.
I agree though that lambdas could be nicer, but I still have issues
with the last type-generic version and I do not have similar objections
against ({ }).
Martin
