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From: Matthias Kretschmer <McCratch@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: an infinate loop
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 23:18:28 +0200
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> job. The other way to do state machines is to use "goto" for the state
> transitions, but this looks like a school assignment, and I doubt your
> instructor wants to see that (although some might like it).


I do not think "goto" is the right way to do this nowadays. Even if your 
language supports goto statement (but in the case of Ada it was 
implemented to have programs/algorithms from other languages like 
FORTRAN easily ported).

Using case statements and loops should be the "better" way to do this. 
It should be easier to understand the program.



m.k.