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From: sb463ba@d250-hrz.uni-duisburg.de (Georg Bauhaus)
Subject: Re: Function Calls by Address
Date: 1999/09/08
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Organization: Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet - Gesamthochschule Duisburg
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Date: 1999-09-08T00:00:00+00:00
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Robert Dewar (robert_dewar@my-deja.com) wrote:

By the way, some literate programming systems provide nested
"somewhat separate" "procedures" for C programmers (prameterless,
though:)

int
process_balance(...)

  if (balance < 0) {
    <<send bill>>
  } else {
    <<record credit>>
  }
}
...
<<send a bill>>=
  ...
...
<<record credit>>=
 ...

(That's the noweb or CWEB way)

-# Georg

:   Process-Balance.
:     if Balance is negative
:       perform Send-Bill
:     else
:       perform Record-Credit
:     end if.

:   Send-Bill.
:     ...

:   Record-Credit.
:     ...

: with a syntax this light for internal refinements, they tend
: to be extensively used, one of the features I like best about
: COBOL, and indeed COBOL programmers dislike nested if statements
: (they are fully implemented Ada style in COBOL), on the grounds
: that they are confusing :-) :-)


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