From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: new language construct proposed
Date: 1998/02/01
Date: 1998-02-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.886366536@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6avo1d$sul@lotho.delphi.com
tmoran said
<<How is that different from
if boolean_expression then raise exception_name;end if;
>>
Well of course, as we all understand, it is *not* different at all. We
are talking minor convenience here, nothing more. But note that the
above argument would equally well argue against the inclusion of
exit loopname when <<expression>>
in the language.
I think the reason that we justify it for exit, and not for raise
(and most CERTAINLY not for all simple statements, nasty thought ...)
is that exit is rather special since it is essentially part of the
structure of a loop.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-31 0:00 new language construct proposed tmoran
1998-01-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1998-02-14 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
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1998-01-23 0:00 Chris Sparks (Mr. Ada)
1998-01-23 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-26 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1998-02-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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