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From: Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>
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On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:23:11 -0700 (PDT), Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Oct 24, 4:48�pm, Phil Clayton <phil.clay...@lineone.net> wrote:
>> ... �With that view, it
>> seems a fairly simple extension to the language from a technical
>> perspective.
>>
>> Phil
>
>True enough; however just because something is easy (or *CAN* be done)
>doesn't make it the right thing.
>The C/C++ allowance of assignments within the conditional-test is a
>good example of something that *CAN* be done that shouldn't be.
>The syntax of the proposed (for ... ) construct simply look _wrong_ to
>me, like a human-knee bending backward.

While I wholeheartedly agree with the above ...

> {I think the same about the
>new conditional expressions too, they simply go against the grain of
>the rest of the language IMO.}

... having been raised on Algol-W I am delighted to see them come back.

Is it their unfamiliarity that disturbs you? 

They don't appear to have the same possibility for disaster as your C example,
and have been around in some form in VHDL for decades. 
(In the combinatorial/parallel part of the language. VHDL2008 reintroduces them
to the sequential part, inside processes)

- Brian