> Just because you can doesn't mean you should. The fact that it's new doesn't mean it's in bad taste. GCC has had a similar mechanism in C for decades. It

> Just because you can doesn't mean you should. The fact that it's new doesn't mean it's in bad taste. GCC has had a similar mechanism in C for decades. It was experience with that mechanism, and similar extensions in other compilers, that led to it being in the C Standard.