LWN had a good article on this: https://lwn.net/Articles/875441/ https://lwn.net/Articles/875441/ Short answer is these downsides were discussed but the propos

LWN had a good article on this: https://lwn.net/Articles/875441/ https://lwn.net/Articles/875441/ Short answer is these downsides were discussed but the proposal went ahead anyway. Imo I'm with you. This type of syntax has a lot of implicit behavior where it's going to be difficult to find/fix bugs related to it.