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From: Jon S Anthony <jsa@synquiry.com>
Subject: Re: No Go To's Forever!
Date: 2000/03/22
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Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> In article <38D947B9.6C50@synquiry.com>,
>   Jon S Anthony <jsa@synquiry.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> That's certainly a consideration, but if you recall that this
> was the *only* reason then you recall wrong :-)

I should have been more accurate: I had a vague recollection of
_reading_ this somewhere.  I have no recollection of any of the
actual discussions at the time - if for no other reason than
Ada83 had already existed a few years before I even got into
this business :-).


> usage was not just acceptable but desirable. Encoding the
> state into the PC is an efficient and easy to read and follow
> representation of FSM's.

Seems reasonable.


/Jon

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