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From: doylep@ecf.toronto.edu (Patrick Doyle)
Subject: Re: Software landmines (loops)
Date: 1998/09/04
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In article <35EF1276.2AF4D06B@a1.nl>, Andre Tibben  <a.tibben@a1.nl> wrote:
>Ell wrote:
>> 
>> 'exit', and 'return' are not "unstructured" branching as I see it.
>
>They are unstructered in the sense that they can be placed anywhere in
>the enclosing function.

More importantly, they are unstructured in the sense that they are
not implementing any of the *structures* that Dijkstra proposed.

 -PD

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