Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:59:56 +0200
On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 at 00:56, Richard Hodges via Std-Proposals
<std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> Isn't the solution to allow goto in constant expressions and unban it?
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> It's been useful for 50 years. It seems like a lost cause to try to ban it on questionable ideological grounds.
There are non-ideological reasons for not supporting constexpr goto.
Multiple implementation vendors have
reported that it poses a serious difficulty to support constant
evaluation of a facility so unstructured.
<std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> Isn't the solution to allow goto in constant expressions and unban it?
>
> It's been useful for 50 years. It seems like a lost cause to try to ban it on questionable ideological grounds.
There are non-ideological reasons for not supporting constexpr goto.
Multiple implementation vendors have
reported that it poses a serious difficulty to support constant
evaluation of a facility so unstructured.
Received on 2024-12-18 23:00:11