"if" in PIR

[chromatic]

On Monday 10 November 2008 18:09:21 Vadim Konovalov wrote:

> Why a simple syntax sugar is not invented to introduce a couple of
> macro-like straightforward expansions
>
>   if COND {
>   }
>
> transform to
>
> unless COND goto AUTOGEN_LABEL_XXX
> .....
> AUTOGEN_LABEL_XXX:

That moves PIR further away from a labeled, line-oriented assembly language.  
I'm not saying that's good or bad, but it's a big change.

-- c