Comment by pjmlp

This was pretty common in the 1980's-90's, for some strange reason, maybe due to Java and scripting languages, there is this mentality that having a GC means no stack allocations.

Lisp Machines dialects (Genera, TI, Xerox) had primitives for stack allocation.

Them we had Cedar, CLU, Oberon and all its descendants, Modula-2+, Modula-3, Eiffel, Sather, and probably others during the last century.

Ironically the final design for Valhala in Java seems to be quite close to Eiffel already had in 1986.