You have found the answer yourself - "goto". Instead of adding a "goto
else" feature, write "goto else1" and change the next (or other
appropriate line) "else if" to "else else1: if". There's no need for a
change to the language - you can write code in your chosen
incomprehensible spaghetti style already.

>
> Sometimes in an "if else ladder", you want to enter one of the code
> blocks, but if something goes wrong in that code block, you want to
> jump back out of it and continue down the ladder. So maybe "goto
> else;" could be used for this? The above code could become:
>
> unsigned index = 7u;
> if ( 7u == p.size() ) // P1234R0
> {
> // fall through
> }
> else if ( isdigit(p[7]) ) // length is >= 8
> {
> rev *= 10u;
> rev += (p[7]-'0');
> if ( p.size() > 8u )
> {
> ++index;
> goto else;
> }
> // fall through
> }
> else if ( ('\0' == p[index]) || ('.' == p[index]) )
> // length >= 8u
> {
> // fall through
> }
> else // length >= 8u
> {
> break;
> }
>
> This would greatly simplify some of the most complicated "if else ladders".
>
> first catch handler, and then enters the second catch handler also.


If you think that simplifies your code, your real code must be truly
gruesome to behold.

David