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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Something I don't understand
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:05:00 -0500
Date: 2014-02-17T20:05:00-05:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ecc5g9hu3jnndr916t6a0ri82nul1hjrme@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1y8jTxHPokATFwyx@ada-augusta.demon.co.uk

On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:42:39 +0000, Mike H
<postmaster@ada-augusta.demon.co.uk> declaimed the following:

>In message <48278bd6-740c-40aa-b098-e20fe84fe911@googlegroups.com>, 
>Laurent <daemon2@internet.lu> writes
>>> No need for a loop name.
>>
>>Not needed yes, but they won't hurt anyone. In this package is not only 
>>this loop but a few others.
>>So I put named loops instead of comments.
>>
>It is all a matter of style.
>
>Personally, on seeing a named loop I would take it as a warning that 
>something nasty may be intended. Such as jumping out of an inner loop 
>and thus risking leaving some unfinished business behind.

	Along with the minor overhead of the compiler having to keep the label
and address in some internal table until it falls out of scope... <G>
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/


  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-18  1:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-13 23:57 Something I don't understand Laurent
2014-02-14  0:18 ` adambeneschan
2014-02-14  7:05   ` Charles H. Sampson
2014-02-15 15:27   ` Laurent
2014-02-15 19:10     ` Laurent
2014-02-15 20:05       ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-15 21:16         ` Laurent
2014-02-15 21:40       ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-02-16  1:39       ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-16  9:08         ` Text_IO, was: " Simon Clubley
2014-02-16  9:43           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-16 16:57             ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-02-16 16:17           ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-17 12:52             ` Simon Clubley
2014-02-17 15:32               ` G.B.
2014-02-17 15:35                 ` G.B.
2014-02-17 17:34                 ` Mike H
2014-02-17 16:59               ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-17 17:17                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-17 17:42                   ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-17 19:55                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-18  7:14                       ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-18  8:40                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-18  9:00                           ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-18  9:31                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-19  8:36                               ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-19  9:40                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-19 13:20                                   ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-19 14:13                                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-19 15:37                                       ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-02-19 16:32                                         ` Laurent
2014-02-19 17:46                                           ` Simon Clubley
2014-02-20  2:39                                         ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-02-20 11:44                                           ` G.B.
2014-02-19 21:45                                       ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-20  9:52                                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-20 18:19                                           ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-19 15:06                                     ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-19 17:03                                       ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-19 22:30                                         ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-17 18:13                 ` Simon Clubley
2014-02-17 20:09                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-18  7:50                     ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-02-18  8:28                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-17 20:22                   ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-18  0:50                     ` Simon Clubley
2014-02-18  6:56                       ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-18  8:04                         ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-02-19 22:01                     ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-20  8:25                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-20 15:54                         ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-20 17:54                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-20 20:45                       ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-19 21:52                   ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-20  0:50                     ` Simon Clubley
2014-02-19 21:46                 ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-20  0:09                   ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-02-20  1:09                     ` Simon Clubley
2014-02-20  7:06                       ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-20 13:05                         ` Simon Clubley
2014-02-20 11:51                       ` G.B.
2014-02-20 12:53                         ` Simon Clubley
2014-02-21 11:50                       ` Brian Drummond
2014-02-23 21:37                         ` AdaMagica
2014-02-23 23:23                           ` Bill Findlay
2014-02-24  4:29                           ` AdaMagica
2014-02-24 12:22                           ` Brian Drummond
2014-02-24 19:03                             ` AdaMagica
2014-02-20 20:02                   ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-19 21:15               ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-19 22:01                 ` Simon Clubley
2014-02-16 14:50         ` Mike H
2014-02-17 16:09         ` Laurent
2014-02-17 17:42           ` Mike H
2014-02-18  1:05             ` Dennis Lee Bieber [this message]
2014-02-17 22:31           ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-02-19 12:51             ` Laurent
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