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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: GOTO considered necessary (reworked)
Date: 1997/06/21
Date: 1997-06-21T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.866897803@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: EC3uEA.MAE@world.std.com


Bob said

<<I've read it all.  It has very few gotos (and those, I didn't object
to).  Mostly, it's made of loop/if/case.  It certainly doesn't fit into
the pattern envisioned in this thread about FSM's, where every state
starts with a label, and every state "goto"s the next state.
>>

(it = GNAT scanner)

Indeed that is true. That is not surprising, in real life (as opposed to
compiler text books), scanners in compilers have little to do with finite
state machines! (unless of course you are happy with the horrible performance
of nonsense scanners generated by programs like lex)






  reply	other threads:[~1997-06-21  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-06-11  0:00 GOTO considered necessary (reworked) Samuel Mize
1997-06-11  0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
1997-06-12  0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-06-17  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-17  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-20  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-21  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-21  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-12  0:00 ` Anonymous
1997-06-12  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-12  0:00     ` John G. Volan
1997-06-13  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-16  0:00         ` John G. Volan
1997-06-17  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-25  0:00             ` Van Snyder
1997-06-17  0:00           ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-06-17  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-17  0:00             ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-18  0:00               ` Spam Hater
1997-06-20  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-20  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-21  0:00                 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-21  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-06-25  0:00               ` Wolfgang Gellerich
1997-06-25  0:00                 ` Samuel T. Harris
1997-06-25  0:00                 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-06-26  0:00                   ` Wolfgang Gellerich
1997-06-19  0:00             ` Karel Th�nissen
1997-06-19  0:00               ` Karel Th�nissen
1997-06-23  0:00               ` John G. Volan
1997-06-23  0:00                 ` Spam Hater
1997-06-23  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-24  0:00                   ` Brian Rogoff
1997-06-25  0:00                   ` Featuritis not always bad (was re: GOTO considered necessary) Karel Th�nissen
1997-06-26  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-26  0:00                       ` Karel Th�nissen
1997-06-25  0:00                 ` GOTO considered necessary (reworked) Karel Th�nissen
1997-06-23  0:00             ` John G. Volan
1997-07-21  0:00           ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-06-12  0:00   ` John G. Volan
1997-06-16  0:00     ` Anonymous
1997-06-13  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-14  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-16  0:00     ` Spam Hater
1997-06-17  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-17  0:00         ` Spam Hater
1997-06-16  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-17  0:00       ` Spam Hater
1997-06-17  0:00         ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-19  0:00           ` Spam Hater
1997-06-17  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-17  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-19  0:00             ` John Herro
1997-06-25  0:00               ` Function result Van Snyder
1997-06-27  0:00                 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-06-27  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-20  0:00             ` GOTO considered necessary (reworked) Robert Dewar
1997-06-17  0:00           ` Spam Hater
1997-06-14  0:00   ` Samuel Mize
1997-06-14  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
1997-06-14  0:00   ` Samuel Mize
1997-06-16  0:00 ` Anonymous
1997-06-16  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
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