From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,56250291936154a0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: Where is the elusive jump command? Date: 2000/03/28 Message-ID: <8brfm4$4uc$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 603623703 References: <38D771CA.D41AF9B5@port.ac.uk> <8bq7ku$mc8$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38E0E723.C39C392@quadruscorp.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x24.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Mar 28 23:36:37 2000 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 2000-03-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <38E0E723.C39C392@quadruscorp.com>, "Marin D. Condic" wrote: > So let's be willing to show them how to write a > goto, grab pointers to everything in sight, terminate strings with > nulls, etc., all the while trying to convince them that there is a > better, easier way. I disagree, noone teaches goto's in any beginning programming courses, for good reasons. Anyone desparately wanting to write gotos has a peculiar starting point. As for terminating strings with null, that really does not work in Ada for many reasons, the models of strings are very very different in C and Ada, and trying to gloss over this will be a disservice. As for pointers, I would NEVER tell people about *aliased* until they understood the language well. You just confuse people by introducing features that are unnecessary and will lead them in the wrong direction. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.