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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc243f3bb85ffa4f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Larry J. Elmore" Subject: Re: Exceptions: Are they GOTOs? Date: 1996/07/19 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 169653334 references: <4s4gic$etl@news.pacifier.com> <19960718.083252.684@satcom.whit.org> content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII organization: montana.edu mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 18 Jul 1996, Robert Dewar wrote: > Robert Dunn said > > "Second. Can we kill this thread? It is getting rather redundant. > To answer the question as to exception=goto is simple. > Does execution resume at the statement after the statement on which > the exception occured (was raised)? If it does, then exception<>goto. > If it does not then exception=goto." > > A fascinating definition, by which if statements, while statements etc > are all gotos! > > Robert, you are free to define things anyway you want, but if you want to > use a really bizarre and unusual definition like this (any change in flow > of control is a goto), then you sure need to make clear that you are using > this word very differently from anyone else. Actually, I think Robert Dunn is right, technically. All the control statements are essentially a structured set of comparisons and gotos at the assembly language level, including exceptions. -- Larry J. Elmore, Sophomore, Computer Science, Montana State University -- -- gle5989@trex2.oscs.montana.edu -- -- "The said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to -- -- prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from -- -- keeping their own arms." -- Samuel Adams -- -- "The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may -- -- have a gun." -- Patrick Henry -- -- Si vis pacem, para bellum. --