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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,14f7200925acb579 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Jon S Anthony Subject: Re: No Go To's Forever! Date: 2000/03/22 Message-ID: <38D947B9.6C50@synquiry.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 601044661 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38D7B41D.B3494C6A@lmco.com> <38D8E9DE.14E93706@quadruscorp.com> <8barht$4u6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: client 953763827 38.151.18.1 (Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:23:47 EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:23:47 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > In article <38D8E9DE.14E93706@quadruscorp.com>, > "Marin D. Condic" wrote: > > > Don't fight the language! Learn to do it "The Ada Way" > > Last I looked, Ada included a goto statement, it is people > who absolutely forbid goto's who are failing to follow the > above advice. I seem to recall that (at least in the "early days") the designers put the goto statement in Ada due to a belief that there would be a significant amount of machine generated Ada (presumably from much higher level problem descriptions). Anyone with a clue knows that in this case goto is mighty handy. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Synquiry Technologies, Ltd. Belmont, MA 02478, 617.484.3383 "Nightmares - Ha! The way my life's been going lately, Who'd notice?" -- Londo Mollari