From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <nospam@gsg.eds.com>
Subject: Re: GOTO considered Satanic (was: Is there an ADA analogue to the C++ continue statement?)
Date: 1997/09/25
Date: 1997-09-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <342AA3D0.3239@gsg.eds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3429EAB6.32DB@cs.adfa.oz.au
Alan Brain wrote:
> I wish I could be as sanguine. I've seen some really bad spaghetti
> written in modern languages.
I've seen some really bad spaghetti with nary a GOtO in sight. Really
convoluted stuff involving deeply nested IFs with boolean flags tested
well away from where they are set and other sorts of highly nonlocal
behavior. Essentially the coders (I hesitate to call them programmers)
were using a screwdriver as a hammer; not a pretty sight, I might add.
Any control structure is subject to abuse, and anyone doing a code
review
should be as alert to a misused IF as they are to a misused GOTO or to a
misused global variable.
Some question my use of the term "spaghetti" to describe such code.
However, if I have to skip around in the code to figure out "how did
that variable get set", that's highly analogous to skipping around to
figure out "how did I get here".
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
Senior Software SE
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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 ` 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 ` Charles Rose
1997-09-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-25 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-09-23 0:00 ` Coding Standards W. Wesley Groleau x4923
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 [this message]
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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