> the future should really provide use with better constructs, and it not being 1980 anymore, we are the future.

And of course, the 80s already provided better constructs[0][1]

[0] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/s_unwi...

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/smalltalk/manual-base/gst-base.h...