From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ec4cde5d799065b6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "W. Wesley Groleau x4923" Subject: Re: GOTO considered Satanic (was: Is there an ADA analogue to the C++ continue statement?) Date: 1997/09/24 Message-ID: <34293BB7.5AF6@pseserv3.fw.hac.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 275238151 Sender: usenet@most.fw.hac.com (News Administration) References: <3422F037.41CA@lmco.com> <3423AF1B.5152@i.b.m.net> <6098m7$a24$1@krusty.irvine.com> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: sparc01 Organization: Hughes Defense Communications Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-09-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wes Groleau, Hughes Defense Communications, Fort Wayne, IN USA Senior Software Engineer - AFATDS Tool-smith Wanna-be Don't send advertisements to this domain unless asked! All disk space on fw.hac.com hosts belongs to either Hughes Defense Communications or the United States government. Using email to store YOUR advertising on them is trespassing! ----------------------------------------------------------------------