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From: Ioannis Vranos <ivr@remove.this.grad.com>
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:39:04 +0200
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Date: 2005-03-18T14:39:04+02:00
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Jerry Coffin wrote:

> In fairness, the multi-level goto is marginally more justifiable in
> Java than in Ada -- Java copied all of C's biggest mistakes, including
> its screwed up switch/case statement. It's quite often useful to have a
> switch statement in a loop, and exit the loop as one of the legs of the
> switch -- but the screwed-up switch makes this a multi-level break.


I think that wanting to break a loop from inside a case block is very 
rare, after all one places (should place) minimal code in switch cases.


On the other hand, although the designers of C#/CLI claimed their switch 
implementation to be better than C++ (as with every other language 
detail, they were very excited with C#/CLI in the beginning, they viewed 
it as a cure-all kind of thing, now they have switched back to C++ as 
the systems programming language of .NET), I think it is inferior. It 
goes with something like this if you want to use more than one cases:


switch(value)
{
  case 1:
         {
           // ...

           goto case 2;
         }

case 2:
        {
         // ...
        }


case 3:
        {
          // ...
        }
}


with implicit breaks among cases. Personally I do not like this goto stuff.



-- 
Ioannis Vranos

http://www23.brinkster.com/noicys