From: "W. Wesley Groleau x4923" <wwgrol@pseserv3.fw.hac.com>
Subject: Re: GOTO considered Satanic (was: Is there an ADA analogue to the C++ continue statement?)
Date: 1997/09/24
Date: 1997-09-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34293BB7.5AF6@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6098m7$a24$1@krusty.irvine.com
Adam Beneschan wrote:
> The absolutist language ... hardly seems necessary.
True.
> ... Programmers
> in the past often turned their code into linguine, but it seems to me
> that this just doesn't happen as often today,
Not true. I've seen plenty of pasta-bilities, even in Ada code
with "goto" banned. One such pasta-bility is to
set flags all over the place with no documentation of where (or IF)
each flag is used to control a branch.
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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 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <3422F037.41CA@lmco.com>
1997-09-20 0:00 ` dan13
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 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-24 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923 [this message]
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
1997-09-25 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
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