The D Programming Language

[Guy Middleton]

In article <24996 at cca.CCA.COM> g-rh at CCA.CCA.COM.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes:
> In article <703 at cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok at quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
> >In article <24935 at cca.CCA.COM>, g-rh at cca.CCA.COM (Richard Harter) writes:
> >> Here is an alternative to endif et al.  Use labels to start blocks and
> >> 'end labels' to end them....
> 
> >He has just re-invented BCPL.

There is another thing that should be reintroduced:  case ranges in switch
statements.  These were part of B (although they were not in BCPL):

	switch (x) {
	    case <0:	/* ... */
		break;
	    case 0::10:	/* ... */
		break;
	    case >10:	/* ... */
	    default:
	}