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From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)
Subject: Re: How to implement a continue statement in Ada?
Date: 2000/02/08
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Date: 2000-02-08T00:00:00+00:00
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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