From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <nospam@gsg.eds.com>
Subject: Re: Coding Standards & GOTO
Date: 1997/09/25
Date: 1997-09-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <342AA65B.2B08@gsg.eds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mheaney-ya023680002409972202320001@news.ni.net
Matthew Heaney wrote:
>
> My advice to writers of coding standards to NOT follow the above advice.
> We tried this on a recent project and guess what: no one even reads the
> header.
Does that mean that you don't do code reviews, or just that the
reviewers
don't read the headers. IMHO either is bad.
> If you the programmer are unsure whether an approach is controversial (say,
> using goto's to write a scanner), then get some advice from the good
> programmers on your staff. Advice from a peer whom you respect carries a
> lot more weight than absolute rules handed down from Moses.
The programmer should be concerned with whether it's dangerous, not with
whether it's controversial. It's his responsibility to write code that
is
maintainable and robust. If something looks dangerous to him in his
specific
circumstances, that should be a red flag even if the technique is not
controversial and has been blessed by the guidelines.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Matthew Heaney
> Software Development Consultant
> <mailto:matthew_heaney@acm.org>
> (818) 985-1271
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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
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 [this message]
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
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
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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