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From: johnherro@aol.com (John Herro)
Subject: Re: GOTO considered necessary (reworked)
Date: 1997/06/19
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bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) writes:
> Of course, for functions, Ada doesn't allow you to set the result
> without doing a return.  Which I've sometimes found annoying.

But you can set a local variable Result in as many places as you want
and later return Result.  Isn't that as good?  I do it all the time.

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