Re: Avoiding side effects

[mockturtle <framefritti@gmail.com>]

(see below) ha scritto:

> On 13/10/2008 22:22, in article
> d3ea88f3-cb6c-48a2-9661-5cd63fdbf188@l33g2000pri.googlegroups.com, "Adam
> Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> wrote:
> ...
> > But you're absolutely right.  The most important thing is to learn
> > what makes a program readable and maintainable.  Sometimes this just
> > takes experience.  But no matter what, dogmas are a very poor
>
> Exactly.
>
> > substitute for this kind of learning and experience.  With a few
> > exceptions... I still think "don't ever use ALTER statements" is
> > probably a good dogma for COBOL programmers.
(snip=



>
> Nope.
> I'm sure there is a good use for ALTER.
> I just don't know what it is yet. 8-)
>

You "structured guys" are so limited... (that is why you are never on
the
right side of an assignment :-) ALTER is such a wonderful statement!
Something like FORTRAN computed GOTO, only a little bit more
perverted.  Just a (tiny) step away from  a COME FROM.... 8-)

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> Bill Findlay
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