Re: Local vs global variables in ADA

["Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

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"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> a �crit dans le message news:
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> Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> For example, I did a lot of Pascal programming a long time ago, and I
> don't think I *ever* wrote a backward-jumping goto.  But I wrote quite a
> few loop-exiting gotos (since Pascal doesn't have Ada's "exit" or
> "return").  And quite a few "while True do...", since Pascal doesn't
> have Ada's plain "loop".
>
And of course, in Pascal you had to use gotos for exceptions... Hence the
proverb (translated from the french book "Ada avec le sourire" (Ada with a
smile):

                     "Never use gotos, and the exception confirms the rule"

:-)

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