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From: Loryn Jenkins <loryn@s054.aone.net.au>
Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops)
Date: 1998/09/02
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Matthew Heaney wrote:
> 
> Loryn Jenkins <loryn@s054.aone.net.au> writes:
> 
> > Do you still disagree, Matthew? Given that the complexity is pretty
> > similar---perhaps with some complexity shifted from the flowgraph to the
> > decision table---with the resulting complexity being equivalent. And, I
> > think, all your other points have been addressed by this example ...
> > excepting the 'performance' issue.
> 
> I like what you did, but still prefer to bail out immediately, once I
> know that the answer is false.

Thanks. That is your right.

Thank you for helping facilitate / participating in the most useful
(educational) thread I've read for a *long* time.

I certainly have come to a better appreciation of 'tree-structured'
programming; and although I won't be using it myself, now understand it
ain't all bad ... and, if looked at in a certain way, has its
advantages.

Loryn Jenkins