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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC 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: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" Subject: Re: Coding Standards & GOTO Date: 1997/09/25 Message-ID: <342AA65B.2B08@gsg.eds.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 275554534 References: <01bcc32e$350b5ba0$6409868b@gateway> <5vqm61$fu2$1@cf01.edf.fr> <3422F037.41CA@lmco.com> <3423AF1B.5152@i.b.m.net> <3426B51E.7296@lmco.com> <3427E983.6CAC@hazeltine.com> Organization: EDS MS Reply-To: nospam@gsg.eds.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-09-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 > > (818) 985-1271 -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Senior Software SE The values in from and reply-to are for the benefit of spammers: reply to domain eds.com, user msustys1.smetz or to domain gsg.eds.com, user smetz. Do not reply to spamtrap@library.lspace.org