From: dan13 <dan13@i.b.m.net>
Subject: Re: Is there an ADA analogue to the C++ continue statement?
Date: 1997/09/20
Date: 1997-09-20T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3423AF1B.5152@i.b.m.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3422F037.41CA@lmco.com
William Dale Jr wrote:
[SNIP]
>
> > Why silly? Well to me, most absolute rules are a mistake, since there are
> > almost always exceptions. Note that I avoid the mistake of phrasing this
> > particular rule in absolute terms :-)
> >
> > Robert
>
> OK, but if you work on my project -- NO GOTO's.
I'll bet you also think that there's a magic number which
represents the maximum allowable lines-of-code in a procedure.
Any coding standard, or project commandment, or mindset, which
bars usage of GOTO *unconditionally* ... is ABSOLUTELY silly.
Yes, GOTO is to be avoided (as a goal), no sane person argues
this. Yet there are times when using a GOTO enhances the
readability - and thus the maintainability - of the code.
Coding standards etc... should be thought of as *guidelines*;
with "violations" of the guidelines being vetted by some project
specific process.
>
> [I'd suspect a troll for flames was going on here but I have great
> respect for Roberts' previous posts ]
>
Didn't sound at all like a troll here :)
imho
dan13
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-09-17 0:00 Is there an ADA analogue to the C++ continue statement? Heath, Terry D.
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <3422F037.41CA@lmco.com>
1997-09-20 0:00 ` dan13 [this message]
1997-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <3426B51E.7296@lmco.com>
1997-09-22 0:00 ` Coding Standards & GOTO Matthew Heaney
1997-09-23 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1997-09-24 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-09-24 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-24 0:00 ` Aaron Quantz
1997-09-26 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-09-23 0:00 ` Coding Standards W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-23 0:00 ` Coding Standards & GOTO Charles Rose
1997-09-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-25 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-09-22 0:00 ` Is there an ADA analogue to the C++ continue statement? Richard D Riehle
1997-09-23 0:00 ` GOTO considered Satanic (was: Is there an ADA analogue to the C++ continue statement?) Adam Beneschan
1997-09-24 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-09-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-26 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-10-07 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-09-24 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-25 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1997-09-25 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-09-22 0:00 ` Is there an ADA analogue to the C++ continue statement? Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-29 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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