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: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: ell@access.digex.net (Ell) Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops) Date: 1998/09/02 Message-ID: <35f055a5.1431187@news.erols.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 387141517 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <6rf59b$2ud$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6rfra4$rul$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <35DBDD24.D003404D@calfp.co.uk> <6sbuod$fra$1@hirame.wwa.com> <35f51e53.48044143@ <904556531.666222@miso.it.uq.edu.au> <6sgror$je8$3@news.indigo.ie> <6sh3qn$9p2$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6simjo$jnh$1@hirame.wwa.com> <35eeea9b.2174586@news.erols.com> <6sjj7n$3rr$1@hirame.wwa.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com X-Trace: winter.news.erols.com 904747144 24508 207.172.53.77 (2 Sep 1998 14:39:04 GMT) Organization: Universe Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: ell@access.digex.net Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 2 Sep 1998 08:52:36 -0500, "Robert Martin" wrote: > >Ell wrote in message <35eeea9b.2174586@news.erols.com>... >> >>You have not shown at all that "single entry, single exit" is a >>general coding maxim of structured programming. >Well, that's your opinion. It's a *fact*! >But I have cited the section of Dijkstra's book >"Structured Programming" that talks about this; >and have quoted the page where it is elaborated; That single fragment of a sentence, or at most single sentence, about *flowcharting* in no way made the case that *coding* in the structured paradigm should generally adhere to "single entry and single exit". You are being ultra disengenuous to support your fantasies about structured programming. >I also note that no one else has challenged that assertion. Because no one else is confident enough to challenge you on the point doesn't ipso factso mean that you are right. What kind of logic is that? Elliott