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From: gerryq@indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops)
Date: 1998/09/03
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In article <6skhpr$459$1@hirame.wwa.com>, "Robert Martin" <rmartin@oma.com> wrote:

>Think about this for a minute.  Wouldn't it be nice if you *could* stick a
>line of code at the end of every loop, or at the end of every function, and
>be guaranteed that it would be called?  For example, have you every had to
>put those interesting little print statements into functions:  "entering
>function x", "exitting function x"?  Wouldn't it be nice if you could just
>plop those print statement in without having to anlayze each and every
>function for multiple returns?
>

It would be pretty easy - just wrap the function in another one.  Of 
course by doing this you wouldn't have access to the local variables 
of the function without having to understand the function - but that 
can hardly be the point of 'structured programming', can it...?

- Gerry

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