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From: "Adrian P. Morgan" <morg0072@ist.flinders.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops)
Date: 1998/09/09
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Ell wrote:
 ^ 
 | And either way I agree with an earlier writer and point of view that
 | whatever Dijkstra, Dahle and Hoare may or may not have said about
 | exits, it isn't gospel.  Intelligent people can and should latch on
to
 | the spirit and essence of what they were saying.
 v 

Couldn't we say, perhaps, that "structuredness" is a 
continuum, a measure of the tightness of control over 
jumps in a program, ranging from totally uncivilised 
garbage at the "Not Structured" level, all the way up to 
strict SE/SE at the "Very Structured" level?  The 
unqualified term "Structured" not only *is* but *should* 
be somewhat ambiguous (since oversimplifying these issues 
doesn't help anyone).

That way, everyone could be right.  Which would be nice.

-- 
Here and there I like to preserve a few islands of sanity
within the vast sea of absurdity which is my mind.
After all, you can't survive as an eight foot tall 
flesh eating dragon if you've got no concept of reality.