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 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: doylep@ecf.toronto.edu (Patrick Doyle) Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops) Date: 1998/09/03 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 387549638 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: spark19.ecf Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) References: <6sjms6$7c4$1@hirame.wwa.com> Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , wrote: >In , doylep@ecf.toronto.edu (Patrick Doyle) writes: > >>Having said that, I just used an exception for the first time >>yesterday. I (almost) never use them, and I don't even know >>why. But the nondeterminism isn't it. > >Everybody in favor of non-deterministic algorithms (and control >structures) raise your hand! They are not common, but sometimes >they are just the ticket. It just requires a different way of thinking >to use them. Don't knock non-determinism -- even Dijkstra's guarded >conditions are non-deterministic. Knock instead an inappropriate >use of non-determinism. Wait, have another look at my quote. I wasn't knocking nondeterminism. -PD -- -- Patrick Doyle doylep@ecf.toronto.edu