Re: an infinate loop

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com>]

Marin David Condic wrote:
> IIRC, the argument was that other languages had attempted to eliminate the
> goto in their design, but that typically the first enhancement made was to
> throw the goto back in. The argument followed that Ada could try to spit
> into the wind and eliminate the goto for all sorts of computer-sciency
> reasons, but inevitably enough people would want it for enough good reasons
> that it should just get included in the language from the start. As with
> other language features, Ada at least attempted to make the goto more safe
> by restricting some of the things you could jump into and out of. 

I think that Ada avoided the goto by making the goto "labels" so ugly, that
any self respecting programmer would do his best to avoid it!

Warren.

> On the
> whole, I think it was pretty successful - you almost never hear of anybody
> saying "I'd love to use Ada, but because of all the restrictions on the goto
> statement, I just can't make it work for my app..." :-)
> 
> MDC
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