From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)
Subject: Re: How to implement a continue statement in Ada?
Date: 2000/02/08
Date: 2000-02-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmrq$9ae1@news.cis.okstate.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87pgm3$o3p$1@nnrp1.deja.com
On Tue, 08 Feb 2000 16:36:20 GMT, Oliver Kellogg <okellogg@my-deja.com> wrote:
>In article <6smb7v$j39$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
> dennison@telepath.com wrote:
>
>> I have used Ada for 9 years now, and have yet to tell myself,
>> "gee, I really wish I could do a continue". I think this is
>> mostly an issue for C converts.
>
>I care to disagree.
>
>We have a coding rule that forbids the use of goto.
>I generally like that rule - it prevents insufficiently
>trained people from messing around.
>
>Then again, I have never needed goto for other than
>emulating "continue". So I see this as an exceptional case.
I disagree with that rule. The goto statement is the most
powerful control structure, and judiciously used, is
very useful. My most recent use of a goto was to emulate
tail recursion. Does that mean that Ada needs a tail
recursion call?
--
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with
square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are.
-- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-02-08 0:00 How to implement a continue statement in Ada? Oliver Kellogg
2000-02-08 0:00 ` David Starner [this message]
2000-02-08 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
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
2000-02-09 0:00 ` How to implement a continue statement in Ada? Ted Dennison
2000-02-12 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
2000-02-14 0:00 ` Oliver Kellogg
2000-02-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-09 0:00 ` Roger Barnett
[not found] <35EA8153.7BFC91E3@physics.purdue.edu>
1998-08-31 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-08-31 0:00 ` Robert T. Sagris
1998-09-01 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-31 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1998-09-01 0:00 ` alan walkington
1998-09-02 0:00 ` Dr Richard A. O'Keefe
1998-09-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-02 0:00 ` alan walkington
1998-09-03 0:00 ` dewarr
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1998-08-31 0:00 Robert T. Sagris
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
1998-09-01 0:00 ` dewarr
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