Comment by AnimalMuppet
3 days ago
Yes, a function call. Not new syntax. But as a function, it would be trivial to add to a library.
My point was that you can often get the effect you want with no new syntax. (Cue 10,000 replies that state "but you can't get this effect without new syntax!" Perhaps not. Many of those tend to be rather contrived, though. I'm more sympathetic to the argument that new syntax would make something less clumsy. If it's something you need to do a lot, that matters.)
Yes - I see what you mean. There are degrees of ease of use at between - at the extremes - what writing assembly provides, which technically can do it too, and what something like, say, Haskell provides. C++ is of course closer to Haskell than Assembly, but there's still quite a headache in using your solution that is down to absent C++ language features.
You can always use macros! Just look at how beautiful and elegant and easy to learn and transparent to debug the Microsoft C++ MFC COM/OLE/IDispatch/ActiveX object system macrology is. /s
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/mfc/tn038-mfc-ole-iunk...