GNU68-2026-001-brief-selection

[jpl]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 11:36 AM Jose E. Marchesi <jemarch@gnu.org> wrote:
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>
> Hello people!
>
> As we discussed, I just published this GNU extension for supporting a
> brief style of selection.
>
> It is already listed in https://algol68-lang.org and in a few minutes I
> will be pushing a patch adding support for it to GCC.
>
> Salud!

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> Using the brief form of selection, the example above now becomes:
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>      PUB OP + = (POS a,b) POS: (c'a + c'b, r'a + r'b),
>                     - = (POS a,b) POS: (c'a - c'b, r'a - r'b);
>
Hello All,

This is a great improvement and appreciated.  As much as I love this,
I am still hoping that someday a postfix version becomes possible.
It's really helps with readability when we have struct fields that are
themselves structs.  Compare:

  Bar of Biz of Foo := 4
  Bar'Biz'Foo := 4
  vs.
  Foo.Biz.Bar.x := 4

(Also, please be aware that I do not know if this is actually possible or not.)
/James