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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: GOTO considered necessary (reworked)
Date: 1997/06/20
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Date: 1997-06-20T00:00:00+00:00
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Bob Duff asks

<<I'm curious: Why don't you code this as:
 
 procedure ... is
 begin
    if condition then
       do something simple
       return;
    end if;
 
    LOTS MORE CODE
 
?  I mean, the "else" is redundant nonsense, isn't it?>>



I find the else much clearer here, it remind you that the code under it
is code that applies to the "not condition" case, in fact I will often
write

   else -- not Still_Going

if the then part was long