GCC's statement expression extension

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:

[...]

| Just refusing to remove the extensions doesn't solve the problems,
| sadly.  These things don't work in C++, and making them work is highly
| nontrivial.  Programs using the standard library don't work, because
| of these decisions, and surprising behavior often results without
| programmer knowledge, because these things are in the standard
| library, not user code.

And far more importantly, efforts put in trying to make those
extensions work could be put, productively, in implementing standard
functionalities we're missing.  sigh.  

-- Gaby
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