Is there ANY chance we can fix the bitwise operator precedence rules?

Vladimir Panteleev vladimir at thecybershadow.net
Fri Jun 18 20:08:24 PDT 2010


On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:22:47 +0300, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> Walter had no retort to that argument, so he veered into a critique of  
> the goto case XXX solution saying it's unmaintainable: when you moving  
> code around you want to keep on falling through but with goto you'd need  
> to update the goto target. However, it can be argued that logically you  
> want to continue processing at some specific logical point, not to  
> blindly fall through to whatever the heck code happens to be there.

Well, if "goto case XXX" is unmaintainable, how about some combination of  
existing keywords? For example, "continue switch;".

-- Best regards,
  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir at thecybershadow.net


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