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From: ciardo@software.org (Gianfranco Ciardo)
Subject: Re: problems/risks due to programming language, stories requested
Date: 8 Mar 90 21:44:48 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <672@software.software.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Mar.8.10.19.49.1990.3812@atanasoff.rutgers.edu

In article <Mar.8.10.19.49.1990.3812@atanasoff.rutgers.edu> lou@atanasoff.rutgers.edu (Lou Steinberg) writes:
> > >> A multi-case switch is very handy in many situations to reduce identical
> > >> treatments for similar cases.  
> ARGHHH!!  That is what subroutines (and macros) are for - to handle
> common code.  And if your language makes them too expensive, either in
> terms of run time or in terms of programmer effort, then THAT is an
> even worse problem with the language than the problems with break.

I think you miss completely the point.
Using subroutines is not going to help you make the code shorter, more compact,
or less repetitious (which is not) in a case like this:

          switch (what_to_do) {
                    case FIVE_THINGS:
                            <statementA>;
                    case FOUR_THINGS:
                            <statementB>;
                    case THREE_THINGS:
                            <statementC>;
                    case TWO_THINGS:
                            <statementD>;
                    case ONE_THING:
                            <statementE>;
                    case NOTHING:
                            break;
          }

  reply	other threads:[~1990-03-08 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1990-02-20 22:28 problems/risks due to programming language, stories requested Gerald Baumgartner
1990-02-21 16:49 ` Richard A Hammond
1990-02-21 20:15   ` problems/risks due to programming language William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1990-02-21 22:49     ` Richard A Hammond
1990-02-21 23:14     ` John F Nixon
1990-02-22  5:39     ` Scott MacHaffie
1990-02-22 20:13       ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1990-02-23 17:32         ` Richard A Hammond
1990-02-25 20:23           ` David Kassover
1990-02-22 20:48       ` Jeff Lawhorn
1990-02-23  2:00       ` Douglas Miller
1990-02-22 16:05         ` Dan L. Pierson
1990-02-22 20:28           ` David Kassover
1990-02-24 19:52           ` Erland Sommarskog
1990-02-23 17:45         ` Mike Harrison
1990-02-27  2:02           ` Douglas Miller
1990-02-22 18:28     ` Mike Percy
1990-02-23  2:09     ` Douglas Miller
1990-02-22  0:25   ` problems/risks due to programming language, stories requested David Kassover
1990-02-22  3:42     ` Richard A Hammond
1990-02-22 16:08       ` David Kassover
1990-02-22 16:21       ` David Kassover
1990-02-23 18:11 ` Thomas Vachuska
1990-02-24  0:13 ` Mark Brader
1990-02-27 19:30 ` Bill Leonard
1990-02-28 18:57   ` Paul Snively
1990-02-28 21:35     ` Jason Coughlin
1990-03-01 19:00       ` Barry Margolin
1990-03-02 13:31         ` Richard A Hammond
1990-03-02 19:26           ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1990-03-02 22:19             ` Richard A Hammond
1990-03-06 21:54               ` John Boone
1990-03-03 20:18             ` Charles E Eaker
1990-03-03 21:11               ` Invalid analogy William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1990-03-03 23:26                 ` I Wish
1990-03-05 19:51                 ` John F Nixon
1990-03-09 17:20                 ` Tony Sanders
1990-03-01 15:33     ` problems/risks due to programming language, stories requested Jeff Dalton
1990-03-01 21:42       ` Chuck Lins
1990-03-02 19:19     ` David F. Carlson
1990-03-02 22:15       ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1990-03-06 10:11         ` jbaker
1990-03-08 15:19           ` Lou Steinberg
1990-03-08 21:44             ` Gianfranco Ciardo [this message]
1990-03-09 16:18               ` David Kassover
1990-03-09 16:55               ` Erann Gat
1990-03-10 17:50               ` Andrew P. Mullhaupt
1990-03-12  4:06                 ` Peter da Silva
1990-03-12 16:58                 ` Jeff Clark
1990-03-12 20:20                 ` Proposal comp.lang.jihad (was Re: problems/risks due to blah etc.) What`s in a name?
1990-03-09 20:13         ` problems/risks due to programming language, stories requested Tony Sanders
1990-03-13 22:11           ` Erland Sommarskog
1990-03-19  1:01           ` Ada vs C, objectivity requested Lucio de Re
1990-03-26 20:37             ` Karl Heuer
1990-03-15 15:31         ` problems/risks due to programming language, stories requested jaws
1990-03-02 23:27       ` Jim Giles
1990-03-03  2:23         ` Vincent Manis
1990-03-03  2:10       ` problems/risks due to programming language Karl Heuer
1990-03-02 23:01     ` problems/risks due to programming language, stories requested William J. Bouma
1990-03-14  4:46     ` Lindsay Groves
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1990-03-16  9:38 vanavermaet
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