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From: dale@cs.rmit.edu.au (Dale Stanbrough)
Subject: Re: Software landmines (was: Why C++ is successful)
Date: 1998/08/23
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dewar@gnat.com wrote:

"No, it is a huge advantage of return over a *bad* use of goto. But nearly
 every feature in a language can be badly misused. We didn't eliminate
 assignments from Ada, even though they can be (and are all the time)
 horribly misused, and even though we know perfectly well that you can
 write programs with no assignments with no loss in expressive power."

Do you have examples of the bad/excessive use of assignment statements?


Dale