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From: ell@access.digex.net (Ell)
Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops)
Date: 1998/09/07
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rgardner@nyx.net (Ray Gardner) wrote:

[stuff elided]

As I said that stuff is not proof to me they advocated se/se.  To me
their point was to encourage use disciplined navigation for proof and
maintainability.  Multiple returns can be disciplined navigation.

But either way, I'm not a dogmatist.  I'll unite with the spirit of
maintainability and not rigid adherence to a practice when it clearly
contradicts that.

The main things I get from all of the structured writers is:
	a) Use procedure calls (with consequent return)
	b) Use procedural task abstraction (not isolated structures)

Elliott