As said it depends from your viewpoint. C's original viewpoint was to keep the state of a compilation unit as small as possible, to maximize the size of a program with limited memory.
You mean they gave saving one character in the source code a higher priority than having a strict logic in the language? That sounds as if we are talking about the brainfuck language. ;-)
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