From: Roger@natron.demon.co.uk (Roger Barnett)
Subject: Re: How to implement a continue statement in Ada?
Date: 2000/02/09
Date: 2000-02-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <748783654wnr@natron.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87q53f$6q6$1@nnrp1.deja.com
In article: <87q53f$6q6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
writes:
>
> For a post of mine on the subject of slightly more recent vintage, try
> the following, posted less than a month ago under the thread title of
> "Re: bitwise comparators":
>
> > C's continue statement would be helpful often in my Ada code,
> > but it does make the code tougher to follow.
I've always thought that the C continue statement provides all the
problems of 'goto' but without the clarity ('break' is almost as bad).
Perhaps if an Ada equivalent required the use of a labelled loop
construct to make it explicit what was being continued ?
--
Roger Barnett
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2000-02-08 0:00 How to implement a continue statement in Ada? Oliver Kellogg
2000-02-08 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-02-08 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
2000-02-09 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-12 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
2000-02-14 0:00 ` Oliver Kellogg
2000-02-09 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
2000-02-12 0:00 ` Character vs. String comparisons (was: Re: How to implement a continue statement in Ada?) Jeff Carter
2000-02-12 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-02-08 0:00 ` How to implement a continue statement in Ada? Ted Dennison
2000-02-09 0:00 ` Roger Barnett [this message]
[not found] <35EA8153.7BFC91E3@physics.purdue.edu>
1998-08-31 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1998-08-31 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-08-31 0:00 ` Robert T. Sagris
1998-09-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-01 0:00 ` alan walkington
1998-09-02 0:00 ` Dr Richard A. O'Keefe
1998-09-02 0:00 ` alan walkington
1998-09-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-03 0:00 ` dewarr
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1998-08-31 0:00 Robert T. Sagris
1998-09-01 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-01 0:00 ` Dr Richard A. O'Keefe
1998-09-01 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-03 0:00 ` Dr Richard A. O'Keefe
1998-09-03 0:00 ` dennison
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