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From: rjh@cs.purdue.EDU (Bob Hathaway)
Subject: Re: Ada and the infamous goto
Date: 19 Jan 89 01:48:05 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5857@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4125@hubcap.UUCP

>
>   Speaking of the non-goto rationale behind Ada, can anyone tell me
>   why Ada has a goto statement??  (See LRM 5.9...)  The Rationale for 
>   the Design of Ada conveniently fails to discuss it.

Modula-2 doesn't have a goto statement and I've never missed it.
I recommend removing the goto in Ada also.   There is no high-order
justification and goto's complicate code generation and optimization.

Bob Hathaway
rjh@purdue.edu

  reply	other threads:[~1989-01-19  1:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1989-01-17 18:23 Another reason for goto Marc.Graham
1989-01-17 23:03 ` Ada and the infamous goto William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-19  1:48   ` Bob Hathaway [this message]
1989-01-18  4:43 ` Another reason for goto William A. Bralick
1989-01-18 16:11   ` Stephe Leake
1989-01-19 17:46     ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-01-24 16:58       ` Stephe Leake
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1989-01-19 22:37 Ada and the infamous goto Erland Sommarskog
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