From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: Is there an ADA analogue to the C++ continue statement?
Date: 1997/09/22
Date: 1997-09-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6050ol$3rf$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.874665174@merv
dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>Algol-60 did not have this construct ['continue'],
> and the algol family generally followed this
>lead. Pascal for instance has no goto, and the one place you will find
>goto used in Wirth's book on algorithms is precisely for the continue
>construct given above (actually that's not quite true, there is another
>place where he uses it for a break out on an exceptional condition, but
>one would be more likely to use an exception for this purpose in Ada.
Pascal _does_ have a goto. In fact, the Pascal goto can even take you
out of the current subprogram into one of its (lexical) ancestors.
Note that Algol 60 also didn't have a 'while' statement or a 'case'
statement, yet Pascal had both.
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-09-17 0:00 Is there an ADA analogue to the C++ continue statement? Heath, Terry D.
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <3422F037.41CA@lmco.com>
1997-09-20 0:00 ` dan13
1997-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <3426B51E.7296@lmco.com>
1997-09-22 0:00 ` Coding Standards & GOTO Matthew Heaney
1997-09-23 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1997-09-24 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-09-24 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-24 0:00 ` Aaron Quantz
1997-09-26 0:00 ` Charles H. Sampson
1997-09-23 0:00 ` Charles Rose
1997-09-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-25 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-09-23 0:00 ` Coding Standards W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-22 0:00 ` Is there an ADA analogue to the C++ continue statement? Richard D Riehle
1997-09-23 0:00 ` GOTO considered Satanic (was: Is there an ADA analogue to the C++ continue statement?) Adam Beneschan
1997-09-24 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-09-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-09-26 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-10-07 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-09-24 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-25 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1997-09-25 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-09-22 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe [this message]
1997-09-29 0:00 ` Is there an ADA analogue to the C++ continue statement? John G. Volan
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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