Paul Gilmartin writes:

| Æsthetics shouldn't so trump technical correctness.

and of course I agree.

His question about the function of the colon in C followed by the
assertion that he is familiar with it use only in

| conditional expressions such as "b ? x : y"

The chief function of the colon in C is to delimit statement labels,
as in that immortal TCPL 2 construction

if (a[i] == b[j]) goto found ;
. . .
found:  . . .

Mr Gilmartin is of course free to deprecate GOTOs ritualistically;  he
has indeed  done so here frequently; he should know their syntax.

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
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