From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?)
Date: 1999/02/02
Date: 1999-02-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7963q0$ail$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 794gg7$ib$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
In article <794gg7$ib$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> I'm not entirely sure I can defend this aversion to
> declare blocks in a rational way, so if anyone has a
> rationale as to why its perfecly acceptable to have
> declare blocks liberally sprinkled throught their code,
> I'm all ears.
Why on earth does it need a rationale to use a feature
in the language that is obviously useful and has an ancient
and well accepted understanding as useful (blocks were
after all in Algol-60).
THe principle of using blcoks to make temporaries as
local as possible is of course familiar to any programmer
in an algol style language.
People can have allergies to anything, but a person with
an allergy to strawberries cannot reasonably ask a normal
healthy person to give a rationale for eating strawberries.
In this case we have a thread that clearly shows a use of
declare, and the response "that's nice, but I don't like
to use declare blocks" is indeed not convincing!
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-22 0:00 Time to join the fold? Mike Silva
1999-01-22 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-01-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-01-25 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-01-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-31 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) dennison
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar [this message]
1999-02-02 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-02 0:00 ` nabbasi
1999-02-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-02-02 0:00 ` William Clodius
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Modula 2 William Clodius
1999-02-02 0:00 ` Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?) robert_dewar
1999-02-03 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-02-04 0:00 ` M2 history - relations to Ada news.oxy.com
1999-02-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Aron Felix Gurski
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach
1999-02-04 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Lanziner-Furtenbach
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-02-05 0:00 ` Grant Edwards
1999-02-04 0:00 ` news.oxy.com
1999-02-04 0:00 ` G.S. Vigneault
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-02-04 0:00 ` Chuck Clark
1999-02-10 0:00 ` Andreas Borchert
1999-02-04 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Time to join the fold? Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-01-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Pascal MALAISE
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-02-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-01-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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